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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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.
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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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You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.
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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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We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.
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The fans at Quicken Loans Arena are pretty hostile. They say nasty things.
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What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.
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The stereotype of psychotherapy portrayed in popular books and movies is lying on the couch and saying whatever comes into your mind, while a kindly psychoanalyst listens and nods knowingly from time to time. After years and years, something wonderful is supposed to happen.
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It's funny. You travel all over the world, and you wind up with a guy from your hometown.
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Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing.
