Richard Simmons Quotes

I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can't get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago.

Richard Simmons

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PeopleStartPhoneOverHospitalUp

I've said no to a lot of things I'd like to have done. My agent has never seen anything like it.

John Lithgow

SaidDoneNeverAnythingThingsLot

I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.

Robert Sheckley

ScienceGreatGoWayScience Fiction

I've worked with Robert Altman a couple of times too.

Matthew Modine

TooCoupleTimesRobertWorked

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist.

Anish Kapoor

WorldFeelProblemArtistI Feel

You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have.

Jeff Rich

WarYouGoWantPresident

The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to life as if the reader was in their presence.

Simon Schama

LifeTruthChallengeSpringPeople

In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people decades in the future. And in politics, the urgent always trumps the important, and that is what makes it a very difficult and challenging issue.

Martin Rees

ChangeFuturePoliticsPeopleAction

The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity.

Moby

CrazyMoreMovementPoliticiansLike

Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.

Johnny Otis

MusicMeSocietyEverythingWants

One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.

Dian Fossey

BehaviorLearnDietMoreSteps

Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.

Douglas Horton

SmileEyeBetterThanPoke

Nike is Nike. Adidas is Adidas. I've played in their circuits and stuff like that, but now it's a business. You don't want just product. You're not a kid anymore. You're really trying to get bank. That's about it.

Deandre Ayton

BusinessTryingYouNowWantKid

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