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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. "

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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

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Fat

" 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

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Day

" You are one of a kind and unique. Never forget that. "

" Most workouts are way too aggressive. Thousands of lunges wear out the body. "

" 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. "

" Everyone in this world is somehow connected. So why not just be nice to everybody. "

" I started my own class for people like me who can't find any place else to go. "

" 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

You

Good

" 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. "

" Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and purge all the time: fried oysters, po' boys, muffulettas, beignets, coffee and doughnuts. I tried to medicate myself with food when people made fun of me or hit me with a bat in school. I'd always turn to food. "

" A kid who moves is a kid who learns. "

" In high school, I could get beaten up all the time, or I could be something better. I became the court jester. "

" 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

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Know

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. 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. "

" 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. "

" I've been going to shopping malls since I was on General Hospital. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't have to teach anymore, I don't have to work anymore, God has been really good to me. "

" Yeah, but I do call them back and follow up. Most people talk at overweight people, I talk with them. "

Richard Simmons

Back

Talk

" The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity. My whole career, I have never done anything where competition was involved with weight loss. "

" Even though my work is whimsical. I have a very serious job. I cry more than I laugh. "

" 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

You

Work

" 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. "

" People treat me like family, 'cause I've always treated them like family. "

Richard Simmons

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People

" I'm not into any show that makes people compete when they lose weight. "