David Dimbleby Quotes
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One of the great things about moving to Silicon Valley is that you're surrounded by all these people who've done it before. This place is an assembly line that takes a couple of twenty-somethings and walks you through everything you need to learn.
Drew Houston
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When I was a child, I wanted to be... a fairy. I still do, really, except that now I've now graduated to wanting to be a pixie.
Jaime Winstone
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I do not think the Nobel institution gives you a certificate that everything you say is always right.
Piyush Goyal
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Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.
Dave Obey
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The Tigers, Lions, Red Wings, and Pistons are there today as sure as they were when what was good for General Motors was good for the country. Would you rather have a basketball team, or would you rather be Detroit?
Frank Deford
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My comics have changed so much over the years, in the writing, in art style, sometimes incrementally, sometimes quite suddenly. So I've cultivated an audience who will go along with me because they trust me.
John Allison
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Rampant eclecticism is my middle name.
Linda Ronstadt
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I will tell you this, though, every person in that convention centre, we just learned about that today and so I have directed that we have all the available resources to get to that convention centre to make sure that they have the food and water, the medical care that they need.
Paula Zahn
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In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair.
George Monbiot
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
Salman Rushdie
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It is a fallacy to think that carping is the strongest form of criticism: the important work begins after the artist's mistakes have been pointed out, and the reviewer can't put it off indefinitely with sneers, although some neophytes might be tempted to try: "When in doubt, stick out your tongue" is a safe rule that never cost one any readers. But there's nothing strong about it, and it has nothing to do with the real business of criticism, which is to do justice to the best work of one's time, so that nothing gets lost.
Wilfrid Sheed
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I wasn't tempted to have my private parts decorated.
David Dimbleby
