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Everything I did with my life I did so that I could give my parents everything they didn't have because of me.
Richard Simmons
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Richard Simmons
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 12
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I started my own class for people like me who can't find any place else to go.
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I plan for the future, but the only day I really worry about is the day I'm living right now.
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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.
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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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I get tired of negativity in our country. I get tired of people who only want to know dirt. I get tired of people who don't believe in themselves.
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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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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. Forty years ago, I lost my weight, but only by watching what I was eating.
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I just love what I do, and I'm a teacher more than anything.
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