Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes
Food is important to me, but I wouldn't say that I'm a gourmet. I don't like tricksy food.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.
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I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!
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Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
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For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.
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Net-a-Porter offers catwalk fashion and trend-driven shopping, but for Mr Porter, while fashion is still important, style is key.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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I eat whatever I want, junk food included.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.
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One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term 'reform' is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.
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Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.
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I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
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Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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Between work and the kids, I never see anyone anymore. I mean, when I first met with ABC last spring, and they asked me what I'd been doing lately, I said: 'Gee, I have two kids. I'm usually covered with food, wrinkled and feel guilty all the time.
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In terms of competitiveness of new global environment, Kenya will have absolutely no choice but to tackle the most important constraint to its development: it has been corruption.
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Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment. That is why it is so important that we work together to build the capacity of mayors and all those concerned in planning and running sustainable cities.
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I do make some conscious efforts to write female friendships, intergenerational female friendships. I make a conscious effort to include things that I see as important real parts of my life that are not reflected as much as I think they should be in popular culture. We very seldom have the opportunity to see women compete and remain friends.
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I'm a believer in just open, free-form creativity, and you never know the surprises that life has in store, and that, purely on a creative level, there's no such thing as rules.
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It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.
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I'm not a conventional guy. I've never been a conventional guy.
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Food is important to me, but I wouldn't say that I'm a gourmet. I don't like tricksy food.
