Richard Simmons Quotes

I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves.

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• What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Work
  • Long
  • Home

• In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.

  

  Frances McDormand
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  • More
  • Theater

• For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Work
  • Kitchen
  • Class

• I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Why
  • Know

• I was taught to value hard work. At the end of day, I'm just Olivia.

  

  Olivia Culpo
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  • Day
  • Value

• Trump can spend virtually an unlimited amount of his own money on this election, which makes him unlike any of the other candidates in the race. So those who oppose him will have to work very hard to make sure he doesn't win.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Work
  • Money
  • Win

• But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.

  

  Imran Khan
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  • Myself
  • Goals

• It takes a lot of energy to work, in general, especially if you're the lead in something.

  

  Faith Ford
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  • You
  • Energy

• When I'm out there, you just have to react. That's why you work on those throws. When you're in the moment, you can't think to yourself, 'How do I get this to go 47 yards and be 2 yards inside the sideline?'

  

  Aaron Rodgers
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  • Why
  • Yourself

• It's a very strange experience being on set of 'Breaking Bad;' you never know what's coming next for your character. I feel like I don't even know if I'm going to live through the next scene I'm in. It's exciting to work on.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Work
  • Live
  • Character

• We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Work
  • American
  • Single

• All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• My work ethic I learned at Miami High, and I have taken that with me.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • Work
  • High
  • Me

• Apart from hard work and being in the right projects, you need to re-invent yourself. I'd be bored doing the same thing over and over, and the audience wouldn't like it, too. The trick is to break that monotony.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Work
  • Yourself
  • Bored

• Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • Work
  • Goals
  • Process

• My parents came from the Kyushu Island in the Southern part of Japan to find work in Tokyo. So we could only afford to live downtown, in a low-income area. It was just by the river, and whenever a typhoon came around, we were under water up to, like, here. That's the kind of place we lived in.

  

  Takashi Murakami
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  • Work
  • Live

• When you work with somebody, either the puzzle piece fits, or it doesn't.

  

  Gary Goetzman
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  • You
  • Puzzle

• People don't call them horror movies, but Hitchcock, for me, is my favorite storyteller. He was really exploring dark themes, and I don't know what category you put his movies in. Thriller? Horror? Some of them go in either one.

  

  Jason Blum
  • People
  • Dark

• The problems we face now - poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad - will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them in the first place.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Long
  • Home
  • War

• Martyrs - those killed because of their Catholic faith - can be beatified even if they don't perform a miracle. However, all beatified individuals must stage a certifiable miracle before being made a saint.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Faith
  • Catholic
  • Miracle

• The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • True
  • Reality
  • Facts

• Whenever you see shrinks on television, they're so clearly written by patients. They're either idealized or they're demonized or they love their patients. All they ever think about is their patients.

  

  Amy Bloom

• I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Work
  • Laugh
  • Paradox