Jeremy Paxman Quotes
Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing.
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I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my friend, you're my wife, you're my girlfriend, you're my co-worker. This is your box, and you're not allowed to stray outside of it.
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To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
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I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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I love doing every role I do!
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.
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I didn't really enjoy school in general.
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When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.
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Twitter means all my friends are in my computer. All my ideas are in my computer. I can do whatever I want in there; I'm kind of... bionic.
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I am fascinated by Omega's history. Particularly the First World War stuff, when they made watches for the flying corps, and the NASA side of it.
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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut... that pain you feel when you know it's time to connect with your parents or your God or your child or your past or your future... and you don't do it.
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Rome is a city where in every corner you have a reminder of the sacred world. That's why I have sacred music, minimalist sacred music, which is also music I like, because at the end of the day, that's what I want to do.
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If you have less weight, you have less strength.
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I try not to write songs. I would rather emote them, and I found myself going back to my room every night while on my trip, just pouring out new songs and new stories about what I was seeing, what I was feeling.
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To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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I hope wholeheartedly that badminton will be as popular and respected as tennis one day.
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Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing.
