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I give people permission to be kids again.

Richard Simmons

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Richard Simmons
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 12
Actor
Comedian
Dancer
Film Producer
Instructor
Professional Fitness Coach
Radio Personality
Restaurateur
Singer
Television Actor
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Milton Teagle Simmons
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I've always practiced this: Love yourself. Move your body. Watch your portions.
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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 think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.
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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'm a very insecure and emotional person still looking to be loved by everyone else.
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There is no such thing as sleep deprivation, there is only caffeine deficiency.
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I've been going to shopping malls since I was on General Hospital.
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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!
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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 just strive to do better. Every time I meet somebody, I ask myself, How can I help this person?
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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.
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A kid who moves is a kid who learns.
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I took desperate measures to lose weight and did terrible things to myself. I went from diet pills to thirty laxatives a day to throwing up.
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Back in the 70s and 80s, women felt the discrimination of being overweight. And now 35% of the letters I receive are from men.
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When I was younger, I ate nothing but fried food. Everything was fried, from oysters to chicken to potatoes to vegetables. When you die in New Orleans, they deep fry you before they put you in the coffin. When we baptize children in New Orleans, we baptize them with a bordelaise sauce we don't use water.
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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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If your oxygen mask drops down, it's time to take a breather!
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