Richard Simmons Quotes
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
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Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and I'm always going to want to do it.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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I want to go to film college to learn about the departments and how everything works. Then I'm going to start directing.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.
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As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.
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My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their record collection, so I love everything from Joni Mitchell to Bruce Springsteen.
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I know that I'm a natural attacking player. I love to attack. I love to play freely; I love to combine and play through balls. That's the nature of my game.
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I don't keep a diary or a journal. Sometimes I'll send emails to friends, and that's a way of recording what I was thinking at any given time. But I've never been a journal keeper.
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The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.
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We shot 'Oblivion' in Iceland; that was amazing. It's so, so beautiful. They didn't have any Waldorf Hotels there, though; we stayed in the middle of nowhere!
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I don't know if I will be acting all my life, honestly.
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That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.
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I'm not going to be happy until every child in every school is physically active.
