Top 100 Richard Simmons Quotes
#1. No one can make fun of overweight people in front of me!
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#2. I get energy from meditation practice and from eating healthy fresh food, only one cup of espresso in the morning, and not drinking too much.
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#3. 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.
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#4. 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."
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#5. 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.
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#6. When I go to bed, I ask God to give me one more day tomorrow. When I get it, I'm excited and grateful.
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#7. People spend thousands in therapy digging and digging in the past. When you dig and dig, you find relics. Try to forgive yourself and get back on that ride.
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#8. I hope in my lifetime we can all continue to laugh at ourselves and not put down anyone for what they weigh.
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#9. My nickname is Dickie Jukebox. I own thousands and thousands and thousands of songs.
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#10. When we're binging, we do not think about death. We just think about how good it tastes.
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#11. 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.'
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#12. 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.
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#13. I have been up to my head just with calling people, I call about 50 to 100 people a day.
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#14. I just want people to get off the back burner of their life and start to take better care of themselves and their children.
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#15. When I talk to kids who are overweight, I see my face on their bodies.
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#16. Therell always be some weird thing about eating four grapes before you go to bed, or drinking a special tea, or buying this little bean from El Salvador.
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#17. No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.
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#18. Everyone's under pressure and you just have to learn how to deal with it. And I deal with it through prayer and staying busy.
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#19. I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.
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#20. People treat me like family, 'cause I've always treated them like family.
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#21. Most workouts are way too aggressive. Thousands of lunges wear out the body.
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#22. I have 40 pounds to lose. It is not the fault of the fast food people, and anyone who's trying to sue the fast food places needs a therapist, not an attorney.
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#23. 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.
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#24. 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.
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#25. I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.
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#26. 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.
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#27. 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.
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#28. This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time.
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#29. Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you're happy and believe in yourself.
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#30. 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.
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#31. I've never lived in the visual world. I live very much in an emotional-contact world.
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#32. If your oxygen mask drops down, it's time to take a breather!
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#33. One day I may be meeting you and hearing how you've changed your life by saying, 'Farewell to Fat'.
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#34. Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There's no one in the world like you. You are amazing.
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#35. Right now many schools have no recess. Most schools have no PE.
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#36. People need the court jester, so I keep that smile on and keep going out there to do what I do.
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#37. Well mine is not gimmicky - it is the 6 food groups that God made, and exercising every day. Trying to think positively.
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#39. I have rules about eating, exercising and rules about staying positive. And these rules are sacred to me.
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#40. 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!
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#41. When the king gets depressed, he doesn't call for his wife. He doesn't call for the cook. He calls for the court jester.
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#42. For my workout, I'm up at 4 A.M. I say my prayers, count my blessings, and I work out right away. I just get it done.
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#43. 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.
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#44. There is no such thing as sleep deprivation, there is only caffeine deficiency.
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#45. 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.
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#46. 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!
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#47. 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!
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#48. I do consider myself a clown and a court jester, and I do love to make people laugh, whether they're laughing with me or at me.
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#49. I'm not into any show that makes people compete when they lose weight.
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#50. 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.
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#51. Even though my work is whimsical. I have a very serious job. I cry more than I laugh.
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#52. If I've got the right songs, I can weave a spell over everyone.
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#53. Thats what we need going into the millennium. We need some positive, happy stuff.
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#54. I'm like a stuffed toy. You've never met me, but if you did, you'd just want to take me home and put me in your child's room.
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#55. 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.
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#56. I was always into staying busy, into my goals, into making notes and planning. I'm not one who truly lives in the past.
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#57. 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.
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#58. Take a moment every day to find peace. Pull over to the side of the road, turn off the radio, and find peace.
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#59. I have loved deeply. I have lost intensely. I will never love again. I get that love by people who care for me.
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#60. 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.
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#61. 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.
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#62. Work hard, take care of yourself, and you'll be just fine.
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#63. 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.
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#65. Singing is good for the soul. It's the first thing I do every morning, after my blessings and my grace. I put music on and I sing.
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#66. When you gain weight, for every pound that you gain, it adds four pounds of stress on your knees. So if you gain five pounds, you've got 20 pounds of stress on your knees. So that's why I'm extremely careful with my portions and my workout, because I can't be overweight.
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#67. 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.
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#68. That's what the majority of people in the world do, they walk among the ruins of their life. Things that didn't work out, relationships that went sour, jobs that disappeared. All they can think about is their ruins, and when you focus on that you can't build a new you.
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#69. 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.
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#70. 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.
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#71. We're all in trouble, and we all need to sort of pick up the pieces and start to exercise more and really be careful with the food.
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#72. 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.
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#73. 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.
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#76. 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.'
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#77. I've always practiced this: Love yourself. Move your body. Watch your portions.
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#78. 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.
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#79. When I lost my weight, I went and bought about 15 different types of underwear to see what would look good on my new body. It's exciting!
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#80. 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.
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#81. I suffered from eating disorders when I was just a kid. I did not like me or the way I looked. But back then, you could not tell anyone.
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#82. I was born with a crippled leg. I wore a corrective shoes since I was three years old and I still wear them.
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#83. I just strive to do better. Every time I meet somebody, I ask myself, "How can I help this person?"
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#84. In high school, I could get beaten up all the time, or I could be something better. I became the court jester.
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#85. 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.
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#86. Everyone in this world is somehow connected. So why not just be nice to everybody.
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#87. I don't have to teach anymore, I don't have to work anymore, God has been really good to me.
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#88. I have a one of a kind collection of dolls. My house is like a museum.
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#89. There's a list of foods I can't have in the house. Peanut butter, can't have that in the house. Potato chips, can't have that in the house. Random little small mini candy bars, don't even think about it. I just have to watch everything. I have to stay between 1500 and 1600 calories a day. That's it.
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#90. 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.
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#91. If people confront me with certain questions, if they are not right, I will not answer them.
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#92. 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.
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#93. I don't talk about my personal life, and I don't talk about death.
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#95. I never say anything negative about anyone, because that won't get you anywhere.
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#97. 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.
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#98. If you want to get the body you've always dreamed of, you have to earn it.
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#99. I've been going to shopping malls since I was on General Hospital.
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#100. 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.
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