Richard Simmons Quotes
If I don't take care of myself, if I don't feel good about myself, how can I help others?
Quotes to Explore
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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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.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu.
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When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
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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.
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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.
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Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.
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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.
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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.
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Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth. And it happens every few minutes.
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Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.
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'Can't we just all get a bong and tag along.'
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Being a die-hard Knicks fan, I remember hunting down these orange-and-blue Nikes that they only released in England. And I used to hunt for sneakers when I DJ'd in Japan. But then Nike flooded the market with a head-spinning array of color combinations and it just didn't seem cool anymore.
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I love hip-hop, but hip-hop is a way of life.
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I have never lied to the people. I have always told them to love themselves, to move their body, and to watch their portions. I never jumped on any other bandwagons for stupid diets or shots or pills or anything. I'm very worried about our young people. And we need to take care of them, or they're not going to live as long as their parents. And this is really something very important to me.
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Early inspirations included Michael Jackson, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Lionel Richie... Those were the people I actually wound up studying just to hone my craft.
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St. Jerome declares that he holds for certain, and has learned from experience, that he will never make a good end who has led a bad life to the very last: 'This I hold, this I have learned by much experience, that his will be an evil end who has always led an evil life.'
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If I don't take care of myself, if I don't feel good about myself, how can I help others?
