Jack LaLanne Quotes

When I first started out, I was considered a crackpot, he said. The doctors used to say, 'Don't go to that Jack LaLanne, you'll get hemorrhoids, you won't get an erection, you women will look like men, you athletes will get muscle-bound - this is what I had to go through.

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• At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • You
  • First
  • Reservations

• I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Movie
  • Think

• I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Know
  • Now
  • Journalism

• It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Women
  • Over
  • Disappointments

• The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Alone
  • Media
  • Social Media

• When you had thugs and bullies and killers imposing their will on their own people or other people - if you don't respond to it, it just keeps coming because they're encouraged by their own success.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Success
  • You

• I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Time
  • Me
  • Genre

• I can't even go down to the park anymore back home in Newark, New Jersey because my homeboys won't let me play. They tell me I'm too big time, too Hollywood, so they won't let me play out there no more.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Time
  • Home
  • Me

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?

  

  Edmund H. North
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Small

• Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Fun
  • Driving
  • Bike

• Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Sacred
  • Cows
  • Hamburger

• I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Up
  • Control
  • Confidence

• In Benin, there's a thing that family members wear the same pattern of traditional African clothing.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Family
  • Same
  • Clothing

• I love helping out good people who are doing good things.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.

  

  Yash Chopra
  • Romantic
  • Relationships

• And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Time
  • Father
  • Know

• Rekindling hope, engaging in inner work, and venturing into the world amount to a complete plan for picking yourself up when you're down.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Plan

• Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.

  

  Val Guest
  • Man
  • Poison
  • Location

• I'm very proud of New Order and Joy Division, that heritage of songs.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Proud
  • Joy

• Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • Women
  • Dignity
  • Vanity

• When I first started out, I was considered a crackpot, he said. The doctors used to say, 'Don't go to that Jack LaLanne, you'll get hemorrhoids, you won't get an erection, you women will look like men, you athletes will get muscle-bound - this is what I had to go through.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Men
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