Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes
I was born with a silver microphone in my mouth, and that was an advantage. My father wrote books and was also a great broadcaster.
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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Politics is a good thing!
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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I believe we're the party of small business.
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I don’t fear death. I remember my last meeting with my father when he told me, 'You know, tonight when I will be killed, my mother and my father will be waiting for me.' It makes me weepy … but I don’t think it can happen unless God wants it to happen because so many people have tried to kill me.
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Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing 'The Bear.' I thought, 'What if I just stopped and listened?'
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Bisexuality is the proportional representation of sexuality in a world where most of us - straight or gay - operate a first-past-the-post system.
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I am greatly proud of the fact that 'Doom' is one of those things where everything that has a 32-bit processor has had 'Doom' run on it, and I think that's been one of the great aspects of having it be open source: having everything out there means that people have maintained that and kept it up to date.
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I was born with a silver microphone in my mouth, and that was an advantage. My father wrote books and was also a great broadcaster.
