Exercise is overrated.
TIM FERRISS
TIM FERRISS
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When you’re singing, you’re using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can’t do that if you’re a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I’d tell them to sing more. It’s good therapy, too.
Willie NelsonWillie Nelson Drag Race’ is sort of like trying to lift weights – like, 50 pounds when you should’ve been lifting 20.
Trixie MattelTrixie Mattel A good goal is like a strenuous exercise – it makes you stretch.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash I will do anything to look like him – except, of course, exercise or eat right.
Steve MartinSteve Martin A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.
Thomas PaineThomas Paine A good goal is like a strenuous exercise – it makes you stretch.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash Meditation is like a plane: It first takes you high, then far away and then further away imperceptibly.
Gaur Gopal DasGaur Gopal Das We’re working out, watching Netflix and learning to play instruments. I think we’re doing a lot of self-development, and also just trying to stay active.
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