Richard Simmons Quotes

I don't know about you, but every time some joker points me out as I walk through an airport wearing extra-small Dolfin shorts, a tank top and leg warmers, I get a little upset.

Richard Simmons

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• As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.

  

  Lance Loud
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• 'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Movie
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• If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Life
  • God
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• I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Myself

• The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • Men
  • Power
  • Opportunity

• Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • True

• I'm of the school that you've got to show a distinction between Democrats and Republicans. And in order to have the base energized, you've got to show that the party stands for something.

  

  Jim Inhofe
  • School
  • Party

• You always want to aim high.

  

  James Bobin
  • High

• In theater, one of the biggest problems when you're rehearsing comedy over and over again is that you stop laughing at each other.

  

  Lauren Ashley Carter
  • Stop
  • Comedy

• Opponents of U.S. sanctions have made 'unilateral sanctions' their special target. They argue that sanctions observed by many nations would be much more effective. True enough. Far better for trade with an outlaw regime to be restricted by many nations than by just one.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • True

• When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'

  

  David Hockney
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Wish

• Mumbai is home to us. Medina was born in Munich because Roya's family lives in Germany and she had five sisters to help her while I was travelling for work.

  

  Adnan Sami
  • Work
  • Family
  • Home

• My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Energy

• It's hard being the king, but somebody's got to do it.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Politics
  • King
  • Hard

• Man thinks, God directs. [Lat., Homo cogitat, Deu indicat.]

  

  Alcuin
  • God
  • Thinks
  • Directs

• Most of my career I've spent really nervous. Just about work, getting work and having it in.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Work
  • Career
  • Nervous

• The decisions you make can be upsetting to fans. I've experienced that, as a listener, looking at artists I've admired. It's sensitive. We really consider the idea of natural growth versus unnatural leaps.

  

  Alex Scally Beach House
  • Decision
  • Artist
  • Growth

• When you play in a band, you're in phase with people. When you're a DJ, you're totally off-phase. Your work time is 3 A.M. - 5 A.M. and I don't think you can connect. You're miserable the whole time. Whenever I see a DJ in the airport, they are always on the verge of crying.

  

  Thomas Pablo Croquet Phoenix
  • People
  • Band
  • Connect

• I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn’t going well… He asked me to come to his studio -- which I did -- I looked around at the work, dozens of sketches, drawings, large pictures, and I was very close to his work, intensely involved with his work, and he asked me, ‘What’s wrong?’ And I said, ‘Simple – it’s a loss of nerve.

  

  Morton Feldman
  • Said
  • Involved
  • Painter

• I love my DSL, but I love my WiFi more. And I probably get on the Internet 40 percent to 50 percent more because of the combination of those technologies.

  

  Michael K. Powell
  • Internet
  • Combination
  • Percent

• I like to keep myself wrapped in layers of sleep and wait for the geraniums.

  

  Ursula Hegi
  • Sleep
  • Waiting
  • Layers

• I don't know about you, but every time some joker points me out as I walk through an airport wearing extra-small Dolfin shorts, a tank top and leg warmers, I get a little upset.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Upset
  • Joker
  • Airport