Richard Simmons Quotes
My parents always told me to be myself. I was always funny and silly as a kid. And I would always make them laugh. And they always told me to dream big and follow those dreams.
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And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.
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Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
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My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'
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I don't necessarily call myself a psychic, but since I was a little girl, I would dream about things, and then I would tell my dad, and it would happen the next day.
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Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.
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I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
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My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
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Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.
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There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.
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I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me.
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My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my parents.
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When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.
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My wife and I ran through 'Justified' in, like, a day. And that is such a funny, amazing show.
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I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.
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You must remember that anyone under 30 - especially a ballplayer - is an adolescent. I never got close to being an adult until I was 32. Even though I was married and had a son at 20, I was a kid at 32, living at home with my parents. Sure, I was a manager then. That doesn't mean you're grown up.
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If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good.
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I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education.
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Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.
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Ice Cube's the coolest dad. A lot of parents - a lot of kids do not think their parents are cool. Oh, no. My dad's cool... You know, I was born in 1991. That's when 'Boyz n the Hood' came out. So I've always see him on TV. I don't see everybody else's dad, you know. So I've always had a sense of, you know, he's cool. He's in the light.
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I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to write. It has to come to me in my head like someone telling me the words.
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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I don't have anything to prove anymore. I can relax.
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My parents always told me to be myself. I was always funny and silly as a kid. And I would always make them laugh. And they always told me to dream big and follow those dreams.
