Gail Simmons Quotes
The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
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There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
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Most Israelis have a sense, 'We just don't want to live in the Middle East anymore. We don't want it to be the Middle East. Were going to just build a wall or operate unilaterally' - not try to even use force as used to be the case to convince Arabs to accept Israel by convincing them that Israel is here to stay and then negotiating.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'
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Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.
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Not many people know 'Hellblazer.'
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An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
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What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
