Richard Simmons Quotes
Truthfully, everyone knows how to eat right. They know the difference between oatmeal and a jelly cream doughnut. They know how to walk. Everyone has this in their brain. When I started, we didn't have all this knowledge. Forty years ago, I lost my weight, but only by watching what I was eating.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.
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I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
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I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and working internationally to cut off the flow of funds to al Qaeda. They are having a difficult time. They failed in this endeavor.
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In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.
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When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
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My workout involves cardio, jogging, and yoga as well. I am a firm believer of yoga and meditation.
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I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.
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There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.
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To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.
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The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.
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My mother used to make the most amazing yogurt.
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We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.
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Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.
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My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person.
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Life outside of Earth is probably going to be really hard to find.
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Not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions.
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Truthfully, everyone knows how to eat right. They know the difference between oatmeal and a jelly cream doughnut. They know how to walk. Everyone has this in their brain. When I started, we didn't have all this knowledge. Forty years ago, I lost my weight, but only by watching what I was eating.
