Adam Rippon Quotes
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As an audience member, I like to watch what they're doing, and that's one of the reasons I love skating: because it's a performance, and I love to perform. That's my favorite aspect of skating.
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What makes America great is that we're all so different.
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I've always spoken my mind and from the heart.
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It's totally crazy! I can't believe all the young kids doing it in competition now. It's pretty unbelievable to have an element variation named after me.
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I realize now that it's important that I share my story... Also, it'll be easy for me to do an interview, to interact with people.
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I came out seven times in one weekend. I have a flair for the dramatic.
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I don't want my Olympic experience to be about Mike Pence. You know, I want it to be about my amazing skating and being America's sweetheart.
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You have a personality like mine, it's for everybody... It's not just for some group of people.
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Given this platform of being an Olympic athlete, I think it's really important that we stand up for what we believe in, and we speak out against things that we think are wrong and injust.
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I'm confident in who I and what I'm doing.
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I always said that if I had the platform and the opportunity to share my story and make it easier for others, I would - so that, in a way, I can be the role model that I was looking for as a kid.
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When I found skating, it was something that was individual, and it was something that I could focus on being my best. And I loved the whole practice, and I also loved performing. It was probably the first time I felt really good about myself and that I was good at something, because I always liked being athletic.
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I can't tone it down. I'm being me and being myself.
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I really brought that with me: that people think gay people are disgusting... I remember thinking, 'Okay, I might be gay. But I won't tell anybody. Nobody will ever know.'
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I know what it's like to be young and to feel like you don't belong.
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I can see my competitors sweating, and I am cool as a cucumber.
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I don't follow the rules!
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Mike Pence doesn't stand for anything that I really believe in.
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As soon as I broke my foot, I remember thinking that I'm going to make this the best thing that's ever happened to me.
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I personally don't have anything to say to Mike Pence. I'm very lucky because legislation that he's pushed hasn't affected my life at all. I spoke out because there are people out there whose lives have been affected by change that he's tried to make.
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I am from Scranton, PA.
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I've never made a meal that I wasn't able to eat, but it that doesn't mean anyone else would ever eat it, haha!
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Representing the U.S.A. is one of the greatest honors of my life, and being able to do it as my authentic self makes it all so much sweeter.
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I've gotten a lot of attention, I think, just for being myself. I think that a lot of people, when they come to a competition, are afraid to be themselves no matter who they are.