Richard Simmons Quotes

I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can't get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago.

Richard Simmons

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• For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Two
  • Once
  • Decades

• For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Violence
  • Decades
  • Until

• When I was 15, I had this illness and was basically housebound for two years.

  

  Lauren Daigle
  • Illness
  • Basically
  • Housebound

• The night before, go over your schedule and see what you're going to do and what the purpose of what you're doing is. I advocate having a two-column schedule. On the left, put down all your appointments and phone calls. On the right, put down what the purpose is.

  

  Robert Pozen
  • Night
  • Purpose
  • Schedule

• What took me decades to learn, these kids can get on the Internet...What I learned by brute force, dealing out hands, they learn on computers. It tends to make for fairly technical players, but they make up for it with aggression, the kind that comes when you learn things fast.

  

  Doyle Brunson
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Internet

• I've loved him for a decade. And I had him for one day before I made a complete and utter mess of things. Or he did. I'm still not sure about that.

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Made
  • Stills
  • Mess

• I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • People
  • Youth
  • Industry

• Music didn't really hit me again until the '90s, when the dancehall scene got going. The '90s were perfect for me. I would have really liked to have had The Slits out in the '90s again, to do tours and albums, because I think the '90s was a brilliant decade for music.

  

  Ari Up
  • Perfect
  • Scene
  • Brilliant

• Phone calls, that is actually interrupting someone’s life to have them talk on the phone, should be eresrved for emergencies only.

  

  Casey Neistat
  • Life
  • Emergencies
  • Phone Calls

• Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Life
  • Concern
  • Intense

• When I turned on the TV one day and saw he was the offensive coordinator for the Patriots, the first thing I thought was ... Charlie? Wow, maybe I should have known that since I'm in sports broadcasting. Of course, now I try to get tickets and can't, and he doesn't return phone calls.

  

  Bob Golic
  • Broadcasting
  • Patriots
  • Phone Calls

• Within the next few years-a decade perhaps-we should be in a position to unlock new knowledge about life and matter so great that wholly new concepts of human life will follow in the wake of this new knowledge.

  

  David Lilienthal
  • Knowledge
  • Human
  • Matter

• In urbanization, you think big because you are thinking decades ahead.

  

  Kushal Pal Singh
  • Thinking
  • Decades
  • Urbanization

• Gore Vidal, Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky, talk about how the U.S. became a national security state after World War II. Essentially there's this bipartisan foreign policy elite who've been calling the shots for the last few decades and they're clearly still in control regardless of how clownish or absurd they demonstrate themselves to be. There's no shaking their orthodoxy. To me it was the most depressing thing, these full-scale military interventions firsthand for a number of years, seeing how quickly we can get involved in another war with very little debate.

  

  Michael Hastings
  • Control
  • Involved
  • Debate

• People might like to think a war is done when a cease fire is signed, but for most people who lived through a war it goes on for decades.

  

  Nguyen Viet Thang
  • Done
  • War
  • Decades

• I think I'm just a comedian who's a pretty good con man, and I don't see that changing any time soon.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Time
  • Good
  • Pretty

• Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Disappointments
  • Life's
  • Portions

• The impossible always takes a little longer.

  

  Elaine Cunningham
  • Impossible
  • Longer

• Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Spiritual
  • Causes

• The most important thing for me in an action sequence is, you understand the characters' intention and the challenges the characters are going to have to face: what the character story is within the action sequence.

  

  Simon Kinberg
  • Character
  • Action
  • Story

• I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can't get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Decades
  • Phone Calls
  • Housebound