Richard Simmons Quotes
When the king gets depressed, he doesn't call for his wife. He doesn't call for the cook. He calls for the court jester.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy.
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My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.
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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
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I would really like to play someone contemporary, as I've done lots of period pieces. I would love to play an American bimbo or a grimy Londoner. But I'm probably more suited in people's minds to playing a corseted victim.
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While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.
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I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, 'Mum, I want to be Pollyanna.' She said, 'You're going to have to make yourself cry if you want to be an actress.' So I turned my head away, and when I turned it back I was in floods of tears.
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I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!
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My mother and grandmother raised me. Queens raised me.
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The Conservatives are a confusing lot. They first denied climate change was a serious issue and then suggested strengthening the nuclear industry as a solution to it. They oppose the European Union, but support joining North American Free Trade Agreement, despite its obvious failure.
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Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
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And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.
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We broke our hearts,in the war betweenSt. George and the dragon,but both, in equal part,are welcome to come along.I'm inviting everyone.
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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.
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You need to know enough of the natural sciences so that you are not a stranger in the world.
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And I'm as attached to my wife as anybody can be to another human being.
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When the king gets depressed, he doesn't call for his wife. He doesn't call for the cook. He calls for the court jester.
