Richard Simmons Quotes

No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.

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• I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • You
  • Never
  • Process

• A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Dog

• I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Live
  • Sometimes
  • Bus

• I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Life
  • Tragic
  • Beginner

• A man really determines himself by what he does.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Man
  • Really
  • Himself

• If you imagine your friend is recommending you content on a topic they're an expert on, they can do a really good job of that. They know what you're interested in, they know your personality, they know if you have a scientific type of mind-set or not.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Job

• What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Different
  • America
  • War

• Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Wish
  • Question

• Human nature is not simple and any classification that roughly divides men into good and bad, superior and inferior, slave and free, is and must be ludicrously untrue and universally dangerous as a permanent exhaustive classification.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Good
  • Men
  • Bad

• p. 63

  

  Irving Babbitt

• I heard the hiss and felt the blessed numbness spreading. If there is a God, I thought, it’s a painkiller.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • God
  • Blessed

• The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • Doubt
  • Stupid

• Toute idée fausse finit dans le sang, mais il s'agit toujours du sang des autres. C'est ce qui explique que certains de nos philosophes se sentent à l'aise pour dire n'importe quoi.

  

  Albert Camus

• Empathy is the bridge to understand those who you may be lucky to one day lead, and it is - in my opinion - the most under-appreciated human skill in business.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • May
  • Business
  • Opinion

• You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • People
  • Greatness

• When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.' In it, historical figures like Clara Barton, Nancy Hanks, Elias Howe, Patrick Henry, and dozens more came to life for me as children.

  

  Ann Hood
  • Life
  • Children
  • Childhood

• I love all food. All of it. I wish I could be a professional eater.

  

  Lauren Gibbs
  • Food
  • Wish
  • Professional

• To be an actor is to be ambiguous in every form, which is a very hard way to live. You represent desire: the desire of the director and the desire of the audience, even if it's a subconscious desire. If a director is to work with you for two months, he must be in love with you in some way or another.

  

  Lou Doillon
  • Work
  • Live
  • Desire

• So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing issues in sleep and stomachy comfort, then need, ache, message, object, act, and satisfaction are soon associated like charms on a chain; shortly our wants begin to envision the things which well reduce them, and the organism is finally said to wish.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Desire
  • Wish
  • Sleep

• The living all assemble! What's the cue?-- Do what the clumsy partner wants to do!

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Want
  • Desire
  • Partners

• Rev. Pat Robertson says that if more states legalize gay marriage, God will destroy America. He did say that afterwards, gays will come in and do a beautiful renovation.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • God
  • America
  • Beautiful

• No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Desire
  • Equipment
  • Tricks