"I spent my childhood eating. The only exercise I got was trying to twist off the cap of a jar of mayonnaise."

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Source : "Richard Simmons On The Best Advice He Ever Got". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2012.

Richard Simmons

#Exercise Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The state of the Union largely depends on the state of the unions.”
“Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.”
“Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it.”

Source : Mary Astor (1968). “A Place Called Saturday”
“Your background or colour has nothing to do with your progress, but your endowments are the determining factors”
“People ask me how can I be stylish, how can I be elegant and what can I wear? My only answer is study! You have to learn.”
“The total number of people who understand relativistic time, even after eighty years since the advent of special relativity, is still much smaller than the number of people who believe in horoscopes.”
“Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the necessaries of life is no more than an elaborate furnishing and decoration of apartments for the reception of a guest who is never to come. Our business here is not to live, but to live happily.”
“I am speaking of something that is no longer happening - that is not currently going on. If someone is abusing you, or doing something illegal, or even something you refuse to tolerate, and it's still continuing, that is not an issue of forgiveness, that is an issue of making sure that stops - even if you have to get away from that situation - that's very important.”

Source : YouTube Channel "Ysabella Brave"/"Forgiveness", www.youtube.com. July 07, 2007.

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