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Richard Desmond Quotes

It's great isn't it, all this exercise lark? I used to laugh at people on treadmills; now I love it.

Richard Desmond

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: british
Birth: December 8, 1951

Topics

Love Great People Laugh Exercise

I do love to gamble; I hate to admit it.

Jennifer Coolidge

Love Hate Admit Gamble

I believe that true art is universal in its appeal.

Art Believe True I Believe Universal

I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended up a senior cameraman with my own crew. I'd had my first short story published in 1947, and when my writing really started to take off I decided to go freelance, and eventually left the BBC in 1965.

Blue People Writing Story Short Go

Obama is cutting back on the idea that we're going to have Jeffersonian democracy in Pakistan or anywhere else.

Democracy Back Going Idea Pakistan

When I force things, it just doesn't go well.

Go Force Things Well Just

Brown v. Board helped unite us all, and gave us all great pride knowing we all are truly E Pluribus Unum - one people out of many.

Great People Pride Knowing Out Us

The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Past River Fish Down Target Mean

I would like my kids to follow their bliss.

Follow Bliss Would Like Kids

I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly because his stylistic shenanigans ruined so many young writers of my generation who tried to imitate him. I think, for his time, he moved fiction to a different level stylistically, or at least added to the dialogue, but in our time, he's annoying.

Christopher Moore

Time Think Generation Young Kind

I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive.

People Think Interesting Find Place

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

Memory People Way Keep Different

I got agitated at the idea that racism is a Southern thing. Did you hear about the cross-burning out here? A black family moved into an upper-middle-class Los Angeles suburb and found a cross burning on their lawn. Swastikas are being painted on synagogues. I'm moving to France. I don't think this 'kinder, gentler nation' bit is working too well.

Pruitt Taylor Vince

Family Racism Moving Black Think

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