And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.

My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.

And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.

I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.

Actually I dance really well on the floor.

I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.

I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.

One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.

People really do spend a lot of money on their pets - sometimes more then themselves.

Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.

First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.

I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.

Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to.

I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.

I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.

I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.

I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music.

I will try to make a doll of Oksana with a little dog.

I want kids to enjoy skating and I think it's a great workout.

No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody.

Professional competitions are overrated.

A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

Terrorism is not a public health threat, relative to cancer and heart disease and malaria and so forth.

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

For girls, something that accentuates the curves looks sexy. It can be a dress, it can be jeans, it can be a tank top, who cares!

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

Whether someone wants to learn the words to a new Lady Gaga song they heard on the radio or to verify the lyrics to 'Blinded by the Light', the LyricWiki community delivers.

All publicity is good publicity

I couldn't imagine doing a show where I'd once again have to answer to corporate interests.

When I was 18, I moved to Los Angeles to attend UCLA.

Marketing implies that you want a public to relate to your product - if it's a product - in a way that makes them want to use it. That is only good or evil in relationship to what the product actually does.

It's not right to believe that the only way you're gonna get a job and the only way you're gonna get a man or be happy is by being so skinny.

Some people say there's nothing new under the sun. I still think that there's room to create, you know. And intuition doesn't necessarily come from under this sun. It comes from within.

When you hear someone say something homophobic, it really ages them. It sounds old-fashioned.

Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer.

Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity.

He is my most beloved friend and my bitterest rival, my confidant and my betrayer, my sustainer and my dependent, and scariest of all, my equal.

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

Most people cringe at the thought of a casserole.

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

We have a model that we're following, and it's the Libya model.

It is indeed fitting for me to make a comment to the effect that it takes a village to raise a child because I have lived in many villages down in deep south, and everyone there who played a part in my stewardship as a young man growing up and as a professional, they have given me unstinting support.

It's important to know enough about all of the candidates to make an informed choice, and our candidate is Hillary Clinton.

I do not live in a world where people can walk on water, or still a storm, or take five loaves of bread and feed 5000 men plus women and children. If that is a requirement of my commitment to Jesus, I find it difficult to stretch my mind outside the capacities of my world view.