Jeremy Paxman Quotes

The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly.

Jeremy Paxman

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• One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Movie
  • Crazy
  • Best

• I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Country
  • Know
  • Care

• In L.A., it's easy to get wrapped up in this young Hollywood mess. You feel like you have to go out every night. You have to realize that you're here to work. I didn't move out here to party all the time.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Doing
  • Lord
  • Rings

• Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Style
  • Like
  • Look

• But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that?

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Know
  • Somebody
  • Compete

• In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• Obviously any band, any group, someday is not going to be together anymore. That's the truth.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Truth
  • Together
  • Band

• I would never totally deny myself any specific type of food.

  

  Fleur East
  • Food
  • Myself
  • Never

• I live in New Hampshire. We're in favor of global warming. Eleven hundred more feet of sea-level rises? I've got beachfront property. You tell us up there, 'By the end of the century, New York City could be underwater,' and we say, 'Your point is?'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Live
  • City

• I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Me
  • Travel
  • Make

• After my first video, I went out and had chicken noodle soup with my sister and manager. We were like, 'How rock n' roll are we? Celebrating the first video with chicken soup.'

  

  Fleur East
  • Rock
  • Sister
  • Soup

• My first choice had always been my father. He's still my first pick. Now that the nominating process is over, tonight, I'm happy to announce that I'm going to be supporting Governor Romney.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Happy
  • Father
  • Process

• I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Time
  • Years
  • Tradition

• The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Sun
  • Shadow
  • Goodness

• The NCAA makes so much money off of their kids, and they put ridiculous - absolutely ridiculous - restrictions on everything that they can do.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Money
  • Kids
  • Ridiculous

• It is crucial that there is a government in Madrid secure enough to engage with Catalonia politically rather than continue the denial and legal obstructionism of the Rajoy years.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Government
  • Enough
  • Legal

• We've all said, 'No, no, I couldn't do that... ' But actually, you could if you just went, 'You know what? I will... and I shall.' Once you realise that, it's quite wonderful.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • You
  • Know
  • Said

• I fancy I need more than another to speak (rather than write), with such a formidable tendency to the lapidary style. I build my house of boulders.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • House
  • Style

• Sometimes the people with the worst past, create the best future

  

  Umar
  • People
  • Future
  • Past

• So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known.

  

  Evan Parker
  • Develop
  • Possibilities
  • Resource

• The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly.

  

  Jeremy Paxman