Richard Simmons Quotes

I don't talk about my personal life, and I don't talk about death.

Richard Simmons

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I really thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but then I had an epiphany when I was in law school and dropped out. I'd always been a journalism junkie, but I'd never had confidence to think that I could actually edit or write the stories.

Jodi Kantor

ConfidenceSchoolLawLawyerThink

Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.

John Abizaid

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Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one aspect of the tragic fact.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

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Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

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If you're looking at my other major science fiction roles - the Doctor on 'Star Trek' and certainly Woolsey on 'Stargate' - I often play characters that might be good theorists and good thinkers, but you wouldn't call either of them very macho characters.

Robert Picardo

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In 1941, the BBC was setting up local, low-powered transmitters that were switched off if there was an air raid so they couldn't be used by German planes to navigate. As a 'youth in training,' my job was to switch the transmitter on in the mornings and off at night, and to check that it, and the feeder land lines, were working.

Michael Bond

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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.

Tom Peters

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Ballet can be hard on your joints, and when you're on a movie set doing take after take, it can become really repetitive.

Mary Helen Bowers

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Pray for someone else's child, your pastor, the military, the police officers, the firemen, the teachers, the government. There's no end to the ways that you can intervene on behalf of others through prayer.

Monica Johnson

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All I know is, I think I would like to continue to do public service.

Mohamed ElBaradei

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A strong, unwavering relationship between the U.S. and its allies Japan and South Korea is necessary for the national and economic security of all three countries.

Lois Frankel

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As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.

Dennis Prager

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