Richard Simmons Quotes

I hope in my lifetime we can all continue to laugh at ourselves and not put down anyone for what they weigh.

Richard Simmons

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• The Qur'an, throughout all of its verses, aims mainly to establish and confirm four basic, universal truths: the existence and Oneness of the Maker of the universe; Prophethood; bodily Resurrection; and worship and justice.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Universe
  • Justice
  • Existence

• We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Way
  • Shoes
  • Same

• Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Cooking
  • Breakfast

• And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Time
  • Wanted
  • East

• God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • God
  • Evil

• I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Work
  • Political
  • Years

• If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Love
  • Care
  • Him

• Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Different
  • Movie

• Take your average couscous salad, and it's almost always a sloppy mush, no matter how much attention has gone into getting flavours in there.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Attention
  • Always
  • Salad

• Every note is a lifetime for itself.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Lifetime
  • Itself
  • Note

• My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Religious
  • India
  • Temples

• I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Love
  • She
  • Mother

• Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Nature
  • Everything
  • Hurry

• It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • Perfect
  • Doing
  • Decisions

• The mismanagement of the Small Business Health Options program is very frustrating.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Small
  • Health

• Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Vision
  • First
  • Filmmaking

• Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Men
  • Words
  • Play

• We've gotten tremendous support. Everybody now understands how critical it is to help small businesses get out of this recession and into recovery.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Help
  • Small
  • Support

• Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Life
  • Novel
  • Wrote

• I make people laugh hard; I'm a comic, that's just the way it is. And I make them laugh because I'm funny, not because I'm filthy. The subject matter is dirty, but the pictures I paint are really funny. A lot of comics don't understand that that's what it's about. It's just, "I'll be dirty and they'll laugh." Nobody's becoming a superstar that way.

  

  Andrew Dice Clay
  • Understand
  • Laugh
  • Comic

• Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee!

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Beauty
  • Mercy
  • Sight

• The key to getting ahead is setting aside 8 hours a day for work and 8 hours a day for sleep - and making sure they're not the same hours.

  

  Gene Brown
  • Sleep
  • Hours
  • Setting

• In any leadership, whenever you're facing a tough challenge, find ways to bring people together and get them to serve together.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Challenge
  • Leadership
  • Serve

• I hope in my lifetime we can all continue to laugh at ourselves and not put down anyone for what they weigh.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Laugh
  • I Hope
  • Weigh