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I went from being a beanpole - like a normal kid of the 1950s - and exploded. The weight piled on and didn't stop until into my adulthood.


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RICHARD LEDERER To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to...
RICHARD BRANSON I've been very passionate about renewable energy for many years, particularly solar energy and i...
RICHARD BRANSON A good leader doesn't get stuck behind a desk.
RICHARD BRANSON The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.
RICHARD BRANSON One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.
RICHARD BRANSON Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the peopl...
RICHARD BRANSON A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does...
RICHARD AVEDON If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such lib...
RICHARD LOVELACE Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.
RICHARD DAWKINS It's not correct to say Jesus is God. Now, don't run and report me to the bishop, all right?...
RICHARD ROHR Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance abo...
RICHARD CORLISS I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castl...
RICHARD MATHESON Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.
RICHARD GERE I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show ...
RICHARD FLEESHMAN My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doi...
RICHARD ROXBURGH Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to tu...
RICHARD LOUV In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and broo...
RICHARD FORD I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for tho...
RICHARD MACDONALD Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were ...
RICHARD FOREMAN But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potentia...
RICHARD SERRA I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there's a b...
RICHARD RODGERS I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I wa...
RICHARD MARX Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance...
RICHARD STALLMAN Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its pro...
RICHARD NEAL The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the fi...
RICHARD PRYOR There are movies whose feel-good sentiments and slick craft annoy me so deeply that I know they will...
RICHARD CORLISS If you think of the 1930s in film as the decade of Gable and Lombard, Cagney and Harlow, Stanwyck an...
RICHARD CORLISS The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
RICHARD WRIGHT I've been cushioned against having to work, with Rocky's continual bounty.
RICHARD O'BRIEN I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able...
RICHARD SERRA The Saudis, and in some cases the CIA, had encouraged and funded their foreign jihads, and these men...
RICHARD ENGEL