Richard Simmons Quotes

If I don't take care of myself, if I don't feel good about myself, how can I help others?

Richard Simmons

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• I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Everything
  • White
  • Certainty

• In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Time
  • Me
  • Accept

• By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Excellence
  • Contemplation

• Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Country
  • American
  • Car

• Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Teaching
  • Distraction

• I like my hands. They do most of the talking.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Like
  • Hands
  • Talking

• When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Years
  • Young
  • Maybe

• The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Business
  • Book
  • Reading

• I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Cinema

• Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Beautiful
  • Amazing
  • Ocean

• I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Life
  • Working
  • Facebook

• As under cover of departing Day Slunk hunger-stricken Ramazan away, Once more within the Potter's house alone I stood, surrounded by the Shapes of Clay.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • House
  • Alone

• Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.

  

  Aristotle Onassis
  • Life
  • Up

• If you look at the whole time I was in the band, I only did, like, three solo albums - two, really. 'Out Of The Cradle,' I had already left because we'd done 'Tango In The Night,' and it was sort of the logical extension of crazy in terms of everyone getting ready to hit the wall with their habits.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Time
  • Done
  • Night

• I did 'The Grey,' and it was very intense and emotional because we're in the wilderness, and it was always 30 degrees. You kind of lose your sense of reality in the fact that you're filming a movie.

  

  Frank Grillo
  • Movie
  • Reality
  • Emotional

• We started very slow in America. It was small acoustic shows. We played places like Los Angeles, New York and Chicago and everywhere there has been a great reaction. It has been really lovely. They listen to the lyrics and the melody over there and the reaction has been fantastic.

  

  Emeli Sande
  • Great
  • America
  • Small

• The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one.

  

  David Selby
  • Movie
  • Dark

• Your persistence is, in fact, the true measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed. Each time that you persist in the face of adversity and disappointment, you build the habit of persistence.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • True
  • Habit

• After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Help
  • Energy
  • Working

• I don't think you could find any person in political life today who has been subjected to more attacks and had more money spent against her by special interests, among whom you have named a few, than I.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Person
  • Political Life

• I feel like I'm 100 years old. I can't tell you what I did today. I can't tell you what I did for seven years. I can't tell you. It happens so seamlessly - I'm just floating along and seven years go by.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Today
  • Feel
  • Old

• I have a lot of funny friends, and we joke a lot, but I've never really played comedic parts.

  

  Joel Kinnaman
  • Friends
  • Funny

• If I don't take care of myself, if I don't feel good about myself, how can I help others?

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Help
  • Take Care
  • Feel Good