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Everyone has a story that makes me stronger. I know that the work I do is important and I enjoy it, but it is nice to hear the feedback of what we do to inspire others.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Feedback
Important
Inspire
Nice
Stronger
Work Me Important
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I am kinder to my body. I don't try to prove anything to myself or others. I keep thinking about the need to go slower, gentler and maintain a sense of humor about it all.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Needs
Thinking
Trying
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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 / Television Actor
Cheer
Decades
Phone Calls
Phones
Years
Calls
Phone
Hospital
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I really created my career out of my own compulsion. Because I knew if I owned an exercise studio and I had to teach my classes there, I wasn't going to gain my weight back.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Careers
Class
Exercise
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Some people like to look at pictures of themselves before they lost weight. I don't particularly care for that. Whenever I was overweight, it was a very sad time in my life.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Looks
People
Weight
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Most workouts are way too aggressive. Thousands of lunges wear out the body. It's not healthy for the one with the bad back, bad knees, diabetes. I'm never going to do that.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Body
Healthy
Workout
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My parents always told me to be myself. I was always funny and silly as a kid. And I would always make them laugh. And they always told me to dream big and follow those dreams.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Dream
Kids
Silly
Dream Big
Follow
Laugh
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I don't know about you, but every time some joker points me out as I walk through an airport wearing extra-small Dolfin shorts, a tank top and leg warmers, I get a little upset.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Airports
Shorts
Tanks
Upset
Time Walk Me
Airport
Joker
Wearing
Leg
Tank
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People are still grasping for the miracle, and unfortunately, there are no miracles, if you do not exercise for a year, and let your body remain dormant, then you will gain weight.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Dormant
Exercise
Grasping
People
Weight
Years
Your Body
Your Body People
Exercise Your Body
Unfortunately
Gain
Gain Weight
Miracles
Remain
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For 40 years, my formula has been to love yourself, move your body and to watch portion size. But the No. 1 thing is to love and value yourself, no matter what you've been through.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Love You
Moving
Years
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I'll tell you who makes me laugh, in a good way, and I'd love to have a date with her: if I could just have a salad with Lady Gaga? This would be my - I would almost probably faint.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Gaga
Good Way
If I Could
Love Good Me
Date
Faint
Lady
Lady Gaga
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All of a sudden, I'm thinking that if I keep eating the way I'm eating, I'm not going to live long and I'm going to die. Having those thoughts as a young person can be very haunting.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Haunting
Long
Thinking
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For many years, my formula has been to love yourself, move your body and to watch portion size. But the No. 1 thing is to love and value yourself, no matter what you've been through.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Love You
Moving
Years
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Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Motivational
Fitness
Adjusting
Blood
Blood Pressure
Children
Cholesterol
Diabetes
High Blood Pressure
Obese
Pressure
Threatened
Properly
Socially
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I used to think that if someone gained their weight back, it was my fault, but all I can do is be God's motivator and try to instill the motivation in others so they do it themselves.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Instill
Motivation
Gained
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I've been offered big money to promote machines. And high-protein diets, when that was really popular. There was always some new powder or diet plan that somebody wanted to put my name on.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Machines
Names
Powder
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No one is perfect... absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Focus
Perfect
Precious Stones
Stones
Precious
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I've never swayed from who I am. People have seen me on television, and they know what I'm like and they know what I do and they respect me for what I do. They know that I'm huggy and kissy.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
People
Television
Who I Am
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I put a spell on people so they don't know they're working out... An enchanting spell, where they just don't think about it, or over think it, and then at the end they go, 'Wow, I feel good.'
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Enchanting
Feel Good
People
Thinking
Work Out
Good People Feel
Good Feel Good People
Spell
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Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like going from hot dogs and hamburgers to beef stroganoff, or from ice cream in a cone to creme brulee.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Beef
Cream
Dog
Hamburgers
Ice
Ice Cream
Islands
Puberty
Thousand
Caesar
Cone
Dogs
Dressing
Island
Graduating
Hot Dogs
Salads
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You know, if your parents didn't have you, they'd be living in a nicer home, driving a Mercedes-Benz, with money in the bank and a boat. But noooooo. They had to have you! You've got to give back!
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Home
Giving
Parent
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My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. A day doesn't go by where I don't sit and cry, listening to the stories. I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Emotional
People
Who I Am
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I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Clown
Court
Feel Good
Paradox
People
Real
Serious Person
Work Good People
Work Good Feel Good
Wrap
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Every day after school, for three hours a day, I would sell those pralines on the street corner. I was just eight years old. I'd bring the money home to my parents and say, "This is just the beginning."
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Home
Eight
School
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I could be hit by a Sara Lee truck tomorrow. Which is not a bad way of going: 'Richard Simmons Found in a Freeway in Pound Cake and Fudge, With a Smile on His Face.' Let's face it. We don't know anything.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Cake
Fudge
Tomorrow
Truck
Way
Bad Way
Freeway
Richard
Lee
Pound
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When I go to teach, that's not my workout. It's my show. I'm 134 pounds - I'm a teeny thing. I work out 11/2 hours a day and eat 1,600 calories. I can't stray because I have to fit into these Dolfin shorts!
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Calories
Pounds
Shorts
Work Out
Workout
Stray
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When I was growing up, I did not exercise at all. I was raised in the French Quarter in New Orleans. If I saw someone running, I would call the police because I thought they stole something on Royal Street.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Running
Exercise
Growing Up
New Orleans
Raised
Royal
Did
Call
French
Street
Saw
Orleans
Quarter
Stole
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Sleep is critical to me ... at least eight or nine hours a night. I start to slow down my body and my mind at least 30 minutes before I get into bed. I don't watch any disturbing or invigorating TV at night.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Eight
Night
Sleep
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When you're feeling down, sad, lonely, negative, you don't want to take care of yourself - and the weight problem and the diabetic problem and the heart attack and stroke problems and high cholesterol set in.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Sad
Heart
High Cholesterol
Lonely
Negative
Problem
Take Care
Weight
Weight Problems
Attack
Diabetic
Set
High
Feeling
Stroke
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People have been frying foods since Jesus was on this planet, and there is always going to be greasy, fried, salty, sugary food. It is up to the individual to walk in and say, 'I don't want those fries today.'
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Jesus
Fries
People
Salty
Want
Foods
Fried
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I'm such a huge fan, and I've done classes of all Lady Gaga music. And she's just someone who evokes freedom and love for her fans and passion in what she does. Lady Gaga, I'll take you out for a salad anytime.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
And Love
Class
Gaga
Huge
Passion
Love Freedom Music
Anytime
Fan
Classes
Huge Fan
Lady
Lady Gaga
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Sometimes it's just 'Oh my God, I love the taste of fried oysters on French bread with mayonnaise and an order of French fries.' I'm not going to lie to you - I deal with that temptation every single day, many times.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Bread
French Fries
Lying
Mayonnaise
Order
Oysters
Taste
Temptation
Love God Day
French
Every Single Day
Lie
Oh My God
Single Day
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My father offered me a dollar for every pound I would lose as a kid. It didn't work. And it doesn't really work in the long run. Who are you competing against? It's you. You need to be doing this for you and only you.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Competing
Work Long Me
Dollar
Work Father Me
Long Run
Offered
Pound
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I might as well be gay. And not just because I love rhinestones and Barbara Streisand. But because Im a sensitive person who is supportive of gay people the same way Im sensitive to grossly obese people and ugly people.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Gay
People
Sensitive Person
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I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Laughing
Silly
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Truthfully, everyone knows how to eat right. They know the difference between oatmeal and a jelly cream doughnut. They know how to walk. Everyone has this in their brain. When I started, we didn't have all this knowledge.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Knowledge
Brain
Cream
Differences
Doughnut
Jelly
Oatmeal
Difference
Walk
Truthfully
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I have two rules for living in the world. I never say anything negative about anyone, because that won't get you anywhere. And two, if people confront me with certain questions, if they are not right, I will not answer them.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
People
Say Anything
Two
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Everyone in Senate is a hurdle, but everyone in there has children. Everyone in there has grandchildren. No one wants to see our kids continue to gain weight, have high blood pressure high cholesterol, diabetes, and depression.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Kids
Blood
Children
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We overweight people, we say terrible things to ourselves. Oh, you wouldn't believe it. 'You fat pig. How can you do this? You're a disgusting jerk.' And that gets you nowhere. That gets you right back into a bowl of pasta fregula.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Believe
Disgusting
Jerk
Overweight
Pasta
People
Pigs
Fat
Nowhere
Bowl
Pig
Right Back
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Comedy, not screaming at someone, can make someone lift their legs higher. There is a way to do a push-up and a sit-up, and it doesn't have to be so complicated. Everyone is putting a difficult twist to it and making you do way too much.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Complicated
Legs
Too Much
Twists
Lift
Screaming
Twist
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But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Diet
Doe
Magazines
Peanut Butter
Radio
Weight
Butter
Hear
Lose
Magazine
Overnight
Peanut
Pick
Solution
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Miley Cyrus, like all of us, needs to be loved. We all come from complicated parents I understand her, and I love her, and I think things will be different with her. But you know, in the music business, sometimes you have to shock a little.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Different
Parent
Thinking
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If anyone's depressed for any reason, whether a relationship has fallen apart or they're having money problems, wearing feathered wings and a tutu takes you into a whole other world. A whole new woooooorld, a world of bright and shining stars!
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Other Worlds
Stars
Wings
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Miley Cyrus, like all of us, needs to be loved. We all come from complicated parents... I understand her, and I love her, and I think things will be different with her. But you know, in the music business, sometimes you have to shock a little.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Music Business
Shock
Love Business Music
Be Different
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After I talk to so many people who are so unhappy about their weight and so depressed that they don't see any rainbows in their life, after I talk to about 30 of those, then I try to walk away and pet my dog, just do something that makes me happy.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Dog
People
Rainbow
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I never sold any of those "lose 10 pounds every week" scams. I've not changed my tune in all these years. I've seen everything pass by me, and I've been offered millions of dollars to put my name on products that were just lies. And I never did it.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Lying
Names
Years
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If you want to get the body you've always dreamed of, you have to earn it. You can't buy it, you can't rent it. You have to earn it. My formula has always been love yourself, move your body, watch your portions. And it sounds so easy, but it is not.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Love You
Moving
Sound
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I get an abundance of e-mail every day, some say 'dear Richard, can you call my husband, he weighs 400 pounds...' or 'my 14-year-old is 200 pounds...' or 'I just got divorced, no one wants me, I am 500 pounds.' So I pick up the phone and I call people.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Abundance
Dear
Divorced
Husband
Phones
Pounds
Years
I Am Me Day
Me Day I Am
Phone
Pick
Weighs
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I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh. At the same time, you have people in the hospital who have had gastric bypass or lap-band surgery and they still have to work out. If you don't work out and eat healthy, you'll look like a melted candle.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Laughing
People
Work Out
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How do you get motivated? By knowing your worth. Americans do not know how worthy they are. You deserve to be healthy, but a lot of times, people have, as childs been told - as a children been told that they're no good, that they're never going to be anything else.
Richard Simmons / Television Actor
Children
Deserve
Knowing
Motivated
People
Worthy
Good Your People
Anything Else
Good Children People
Times People
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