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.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Life
  • Friend
  • Wife

• 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.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Change
  • Color
  • Makeup

• I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Freedom
  • Me
  • Right

• 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.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• 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.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • Up
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• The way that people have gotten on board with me is the most encouraging thing in the world, but it's all very connected to the 14 years I've been on tour with Steel Train, even my band before that, Outline, and then fun. and now Bleachers.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
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• I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • People
  • Kids
  • Age

• '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.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Sleep
  • Study
  • Curiosity

• I love doing every role I do!

  

  Malcolm McDowell
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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.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
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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.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • God
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  • Be Happy

• I didn't really enjoy school in general.

  

  Jacob Batalon
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• When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.

  

  Yves Rossy
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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.

  

  Caitlin Moran
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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.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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• If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

  

  J. Paul Getty
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• You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

  

  Malcolm X
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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.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Time
  • God
  • Future

• As Democrats, when we try to determine who or what allowed Donald Trump to become president, we should look in the mirror.

  

  Jason Kander
  • Trump
  • Mirror

• My dad was a crab fisherman.

  

  Darby Stanchfield
  • Dad

• It's funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant.

  

  Ashley Judd
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• Women in the U.S. are influenced by the same trends - popular culture, runway trends, etc. - and our hypothesis is that she's quite anxious to be able to buy products in her town that perhaps she hasn't been able to in the past.

  

  Mary Dillon
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• Some of them are okay, but the popular girls like to pick on my sister, and almost all the guys are gross. I don't know why guys are like that. Do you?

  

  Regina Doman
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• Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing.

  

  Jeremy Paxman
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