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.
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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.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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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.
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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.
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It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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.
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In Benin, there's a thing that family members wear the same pattern of traditional African clothing.
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I love helping out good people who are doing good things.
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I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.
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Love of consciousness evokes the same in response
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If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention where I had the honor to preside might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical society, certainly I would never have placed my signature to it.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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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.
