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"I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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Personal Development
"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."
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"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."
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"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."
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"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
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"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."
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"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."
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"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."
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"Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage."
People
"I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it."
People
"Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless."
Adversity
"Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges."
Sports
"So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well."
Criticism
"Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody."
Sports
"I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know."
Want
"The only disability in life is a bad attitude."
Attitude
"Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance."
Life
"When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence."
Confidence
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