Richard Simmons Quotes
I've been offered big money to promote machines. And high-protein diets, when that was really popular. There was always some new powder or diet plan that somebody wanted to put my name on.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
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I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.
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Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally it is right. But is it the right thing to do? No.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.
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I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
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I try to consider each body of work on its own terms, discretely, so terms like 'sculpture' or 'photography', in their broad sense, don't really enter into my thinking.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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The reality is that most celebrity defendants are extremely unknowledgeable, naive, and vulnerable, and if they get into trouble, they usually call their lawyer friends who handle criminal cases, and if they don't know any, they call their business lawyers, who then refer them to lawyer friends of theirs.
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I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
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I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and can do anything that they put their minds to.
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Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.
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Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.
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In the 1920s, a generation before the coming of solid-state electronics, one could look at the circuits and see how the electron stream flowed. Radios had valves, as though electricity were a fluid to be diverted by plumbing. With the click of the knob came a significant hiss and hum, just at the edge of audibility.
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As women, we're nurturers by nature. We want to make sure everyone is happy. That's a good thing, but we also have to put ourselves on that happiness list.
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I love acting, but I'm not too crazy about money or fame. They don't drive me.
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Property is only another name for monopoly.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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I've been offered big money to promote machines. And high-protein diets, when that was really popular. There was always some new powder or diet plan that somebody wanted to put my name on.
