Richard Simmons Quotes
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I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.
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Accept loss forever.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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I always make my favorite pancakes with milk, and I also add some fruit - like a banana or apple with some cinnamon sprinkled on top. I also sometimes put peanut butter on my pancakes!
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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People always ask, 'Do you wanna do movies; do you wanna do other things?' But they haven't fired me from 'OLTL' yet. When that happens, I'll make that choice.
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My memories of events and games are fragmented.
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It's not what other people believe you can do; it's what you believe you can do.
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Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
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The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.
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To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.
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My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'
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We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.
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Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.
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American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
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I just think if the song's good, sing it. I don't care who's doing it. I don't care if it's a country act. I don't care if it's a rock act. If the song's good, sing it.
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If there's one kind of music that makes somebody happy, how is that a bad thing? And if there's another kind that makes somebody else happy, how is that a bad thing? I don't get why anybody cares about what they don't like so much.
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Once at the White House I was asked to conduct the Drum and Bugle Corp. The man just handed me the baton and I finished the song. It was great. I got to keep the baton.
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It's not nice to make fun of people with issues.
