Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes

Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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• With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Death

• With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Political
  • Respect
  • Attention

• People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• I became conflicted in my late teens.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Late
  • Became
  • Late Teens

• The future is now.

  

  Nam June Paik
  • Future
  • Now

• Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Good
  • Story
  • Director

• I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Myself
  • Poetry
  • Understand

• The good thing about execution issues are that they are within our control.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • Good
  • Control
  • Execution

• In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Up
  • Education
  • Day

• Textures apply to everything I do. Even within my music, I like smooth things, and then hard and fluffy things, all giving them their place to shine.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Music
  • Giving
  • Shine

• There are certain times you realize you've got too much money. One was when I started getting bills from the Koi hotel. When I was remodeling the Koi pond, the Koi had to go to the Koi hotel. They ended up staying there for 13 months and I never asked what the bill was.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Up
  • Money
  • Never

• When I grew up, I had a lot of fun ski racing with my friends. We pushed each other, and this made it easier to work hard.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Up
  • Work
  • Friends

• Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Kindness

• I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes.

  

  Neve Campbell
  • Catholic

• Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;Or at least, faith unbelief.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Hope
  • Faith
  • Joy

• I always had a kind of Myth of Cincinnatus idea about politics - that public service was something you do for a while in between stints at real life. And when your time is up, you return to the plow, which is hopefully still somewhere close to where you left it.

  

  Angus King
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I like it when, you know, 3-under wins, you know, 20-under par, it just brings so many other people into contention.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • People

• One of my favorite stories is from Obama's first campaign: Michelle Obama was out there every day, collecting signatures and supervising the other people who did. If you were supposed to get 300 signatures and you only got 299, you had to face the wrath of Michelle.

  

  Jodi Kantor
  • People

• When you don't know the rules, you break them all. It's hard to take big risks when you know the history of an industry and what has worked and what didn't.

  

  Blake Mycoskie
  • History
  • Rules
  • Break

• Historically, corporate aversion to politics has at times held firm even under national leadership that threatens the health of the economy, and with it the well-being of every company.

  

  James B. Stewart
  • Health
  • Leadership

• If most of your courtship attempts have succeeded, you must be a very attractive and charming person who has been aiming too low.

  

  Geoffrey Miller
  • Persons
  • Attractive
  • Charming

• That's an old saying I just made up.

  

  Kenny Loggins
  • Up

• For actors, when you first get the project and you see that it's a Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman-produced project, right away, from an acting standpoint, you go, 'Wow. That'd be great to be part of that. What a career move that'd be.'

  

  Jon Seda
  • Great
  • Career

• Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong.

  

  Jonathan Dimbleby