Adam Rippon Quotes

Being gay has never been a big deal to me, which is why it's a little funny to be getting all this attention about it.

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• Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

  

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• The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and earrings and a mohawk, but when you talk to him and he's around you, he's such a gentleman. He holds doors for ladies. He pulls out chairs. He cooks. He cleans.

  

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• You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.

  

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• I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.

  

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• I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.

  

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• I think being busy is a healthy thing.

  

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• Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

  

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• But she's not, and I am left to wonder on my own: How does this work, the getting to know a new guy without revealing too much desperation for his undivided attention?

  

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• Being gay has never been a big deal to me, which is why it's a little funny to be getting all this attention about it.

  

  Adam Rippon
  • Why
  • Funny
  • Attention