Richard Simmons Quotes
I spent my childhood eating. The only exercise I got was trying to twist off the cap of a jar of mayonnaise.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.
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True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody.
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Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.
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Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.
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We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.
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The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.
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Seriously, I don't think there's any right way to do anything apart from if you're just being you; then it's a sincere situation.
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I've always figured that if God wanted us to go to church a lot He'd have given us bigger behinds to sit on and smaller heads to think with.
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A mind, lean in its own language. In others, it gets fat.
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But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it.
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90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.
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In my 40s, the two cultures finally came to peace with one other inside me, and I have come to identify myself as both 100% Chinese and 100% American simultaneously.
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I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.
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The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans, and in the works of the first great educator of the modern era, Comenius, children were recognized as being both different from adults and different from one another with respect to their stages of development. To be sure, the scientific study of children and the increased length of life in modern times have enhanced our understanding of age differences, but they have always been acknowledged.
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I spent my childhood eating. The only exercise I got was trying to twist off the cap of a jar of mayonnaise.
