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" Nothing shocks me anymore. I've embraced men in thongs, I've embraced women with padded bras. I mean, I can embrace Larry King saying 'fierce.' "
Johnny Weir
Women
Saying
Men
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" If just one person, one child who is made to feel isolated, looks at me and sees that it is okay to be your own person and walk down your own path, then everything I have ever gone through will be worth it. "
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" So many people in the gay community have always asked me to come out, say it like it is, and help our cause. But for me... I think my biggest statement I could give to the world is to be strong being myself... you have to make something of yourself, and that's what makes us strong. "
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" I grew my beard out a little bit just to show that, indeed, I am a man. "
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" Michael Phelps is a sporting god among men. It is hard to say if anyone will ever match his accomplishments, but it has been an honor to see him become a legend. He makes me proud of the American sports institution and proud of the sports that get mass attention only every four years. "
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Men
Honor
God
" It's of very little importance to me that I was born gay. It doesn't make me a better athlete, it doesn't make me a stronger person, it doesn't really do anything to enhance my life. It's just something I was born with, the same as green eyes. "
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My Life
Better
" I totally understand that I am a little outrageous in some ways... I'm a little un-P.C., but I really wish I had the chance to perform for the American fans. "
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" In figure skating, your body can only last for so long. I can't be 50 and trying to skate but I can be 50 and be in fashion, so I have to look to my future and what I want to achieve. "
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Future
Body
Fashion
" In spite of all the skills that I do have, to relate to the normal world I have no applicable skills. I can speak Russian, I can speak French. I know about Chanel. Especially vintage Chanel. I know what Halston is. All of these things, but they can't really be applied to a nine-to-five. "
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Speak
I Can
" I'm an insomniac. Ambien is my best friend. "
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Friend
Best
" When you are an athlete, it's difficult to take time off and say you want to come back without everyone judging you and attacking you. "
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Back
You
Time
" I drink Vitamin Water nonstop - I should have an IV. "
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Water
Drink
Nonstop
" I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that's why athletes work our whole lives to put on the greatest show on Earth. "
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Love
Work
Games
" Whether I moved people to throw punches or cry, I did that through my art and what I do. I would never take that experience away to race against a speedometer. Or play on a team. "
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Race
Team
Art
" I think I've gotten more attention after the Olympics than any other U.S. athlete, and it's really great that people are recognizing who I am and what I do. You look at Shaq and you see a basketball player. You look at Tiger Woods and you see a golfer. But people are responding to who I am. "
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Tiger
Great
I Am
" I am often criticized for spending too much time off the ice, but if you were in my shoes, you'd see how necessary it is. "
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See
I Am
You
" Finding someone to share your life with is one of the most important things a human can do and was preached to me by my mother. "
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Mother
Finding
Important
" I'm going to skate exactly the way I want to, create programs that I like, and everything will fall into place where it is supposed to. "
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Create
Fall
Will
" Ice shows give us the opportunity to forget ourselves and just perform. They are amazing opportunities to be in front of audience to try out new material, to show new costuming. It's an incredible opportunity to do what we do without the stress of worrying about what a judge is going to say. "
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Amazing
Say
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Life Is A
Only
Life
" I'm not really one to go out in public in dresses too often. I definitely mix it up between masculine and feminine all the time, but wearing a dress goes a little bit too far. "
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Dress
Far
Go
" I am an American man, and in America, we still think of figure skaters as little girls in pretty, sparkly dresses - I worked very hard to change the perception and image of figure skating, and I think I've done a great job on my end, but in figure skating, taste needs to evolve. "
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" When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether it's footwork, or spin, or a jump, to have that kind of emotion coming at you from every direction in the building, it's the most amazing sensation you can get as a sportsman. "
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Direction
Building
You
" I played soccer, and I was the kid who ran the wrong way, or I was pretending to be some sort of zebra and I would flail my arms and kick up my legs. "
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Wrong
Kid
Up
" It's really grinding to always play out of both sides of your mind and always be thinking what will offend people. Or what won't. But I'm strong enough to deal with that. I own that I'm freakish in my way. "
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People
Mind
Strong
" I'd say in general, my style is Johnny Weir style. It's my style. I can't classify it as anything else. "
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Else
Style
Say
" I'm an ice skater. I'm all about the glitter. "
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Skater
About
Glitter
" I hope that more children have the same opportunities as me, with the same parents as me, that let me be an individual, who gave me freedom, and taught me to believe in myself before anyone else would believe in me. "
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Hope
Children
" Nobody gets lucky all the time. Nobody can win all the time. Nobody's a robot. Nobody's perfect. "
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Nobody
Perfect
" Creating emotion was what my career was all about. I wanted people to laugh at me; I wanted people to cry with me. I wanted people to feel good or to think about something when they watched me. I think that's why, even not being an Olympic champion, I have such a huge following around the world. "
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