Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes

I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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• If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Look

• Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Time
  • Job
  • Want

• I'm always the underdog, and I go in there and win the fights.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Always
  • Win
  • Underdog

• Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Life
  • You
  • Opinion

• It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Universe
  • Imagination

• I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Terrorism
  • Roots
  • Call

• I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Music
  • Together
  • Help

• I really enjoy taking care of people, and I was really ready to have a kid, so I didn't have to sacrifice anything that I didn't want to give up.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Up
  • Care

• But actors should act. You should see them most often rather than just not.

  

  Saif Ali Khan
  • You
  • See
  • Act

• We never thought it would be something everyone would listen to. We never thought people who listen to Britney Spears would run to listen to it. It was intended for people on the fanatical side of production and hi-fi.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • People
  • Never
  • Thought

• I have Vie Luxe candles in every room. In 2006 I spent the month of August in Sardinia, and the scent reminds me of the wonderful time we had.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Time
  • Me
  • August

• When I first got to WWE, the head of talent relations was John Laurinaitis, who is now my father-in-law, and the first thing I thought when I saw everything that he had to do is, I thought, 'I would never, in a million years, ever want that job. You could not pay me enough money to have that job.'

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Money
  • Job
  • Father

• As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Far
  • Table
  • Off

• Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Night
  • Woman
  • Cold

• I wanted to be a senator from Illinois. I was obsessed with politics. My dad was friends with a lot of local politicians, so I would hang out with them on Election Day and hand out buttons. Somehow, even though they were opposite, I loved Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. I thought they were the coolest guys!

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Friends
  • Dad
  • Day

• You get funky things in Goa, so I like shopping there. Paris and Milan are also my preferred shopping destinations.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • You
  • Paris
  • Shopping

• It's so different when you change your hair color, you're treated so differently. It's a very funny experience. It's fun - I love changing up my hair.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Experience
  • Funny
  • Changing

• We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • Grow
  • Aging

• I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Will
  • Committee
  • Bipartisan

• Experience is a teacher that knows no favorites.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Experience
  • Teacher
  • Favorites

• Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.

  

  Alan Sillitoe
  • War
  • Own
  • Bothered

• Conservatives spent an awful long time ignoring things: the birthers, the bigots, the xenophobes, the alternative-reality media. We had assumed that they were postcards from the fringe.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • Time
  • Long
  • Reality

• I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for.

  

  Jonathan Dimbleby