Richard Simmons Quotes

For my workout, I'm up at 4 A.M. I say my prayers, count my blessings, and I work out right away. I just get it done.

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• Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Modeling

• The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can't bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Believe
  • Black
  • Myself

• It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • America
  • New York

• Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Career
  • Never
  • Swimming

• I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Guy
  • Technology

• Here's the thing - I'm single, I haven't been married, I don't have kids yet. If I do have kids I would be interested to see them in my life, so here's a movie for kids and I'm in there and I'm supposed to be kind of funny for kids.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Movie

• I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Music
  • Money
  • Desire

• For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Time
  • Women
  • NASA

• One of the blessings I've had, really, for my entire career, is working with founders of companies, whether it was Bill Ziff at Ziff Davis or with Jerry Yang and David Filo at Yahoo.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Career
  • Working
  • Blessings

• You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Energy
  • Focus

• Growing up, my family struggled to make ends meet, so I know how important organizations like The Salvation Army are for families to lean on in times of need.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Important
  • Family

• If your objective is to keep speeds down, I would suggest we eliminate the ban on radar detectors. Drivers who have them pay attention to their speed. If your objective is to write tickets, then we need to keep the ban on radar detectors.

  

  Joe Mays
  • Attention
  • Keep
  • Driver

• It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Good

• I make sure to use my life for that which can be of goodwill. It has fortified me spiritually and emotionally.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Good Will

• In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Science
  • Literature
  • Works

• Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • World
  • Girl
  • Boy

• The hospital that feeds you refined sugar, white bread, canned soup, bouillon cubes, and frozen vegetables should be closed by the health department as a menace to the public health.

  

  David Reuben
  • Health
  • Bread
  • Frozen

• A wise ruler should rely on what is under his own control, not on what is under the control of others.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Control
  • Rely
  • Ruler

• Irony won't save you from anything; humour doesn't do anything at all. You can look at life ironically for years, maybe decades; there are people who seem to go through most of their lives seeing the funny side, but in the end, life always breaks your heart. Doesn't matter how brave you are, or how reserved, or how much you've developed a sense of humour, you still end up with your heart broken. That's when you stop laughing.

  

  Michel Houellebecq
  • People
  • Broken
  • Laughing

• When I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • God
  • Religion
  • Prayers

• For my workout, I'm up at 4 A.M. I say my prayers, count my blessings, and I work out right away. I just get it done.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Blessings
  • Prayers
  • Workouts