Richard Simmons Quotes
When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
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I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
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Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.
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Normally, I don't like explaining songs. I don't want to kill anyone's interpretation or the story they want to make for themselves.
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence - laying down slabs, working as a kitchen porter.
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The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you the truth.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.
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When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word.
