Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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• I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Writing
  • Planning

• If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.

  

  Dan Malloy
  • People
  • Different
  • Party

• I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • History
  • Today
  • Success

• Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Always
  • Emotions
  • Weather

• Politics is a good thing!

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • Good
  • Politics
  • A Good Thing

• I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Fall
  • Like
  • Hard

• The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Learn
  • Looks

• I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • Like
  • Childhood
  • Same

• God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Audience
  • Laugh

• On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Day
  • Hands
  • December

• We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Forget
  • Brutal
  • Middle Ages

• Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Success
  • Story
  • Monster

• There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Work
  • You
  • Kind

• Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Hate
  • Frustration
  • Policies

• We've been working our tail off and lead by that example.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Working
  • Example
  • Lead

• No other facet of American business is more corrupt, more intoxicated with illegality, more weakly regulated, and has a greater impact on poor and working people than debt collectors; not credit card companies or subprime mortgages, not even payday lenders.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • People
  • Business
  • American

• My philosophy is whatever you do, you've got to invest in yourself. If you don't, there are a lot of people out there who will get the job because they're more prepared than you.

  

  Karl Urban
  • People
  • Job
  • Yourself

• I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was out of necessity in the beginning. Over time, I began to see that I could create the roles I wanted to play rather than just waiting around.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Time
  • Beginning
  • Waiting

• Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.

  

  Maxwell Maltz
  • Personality
  • Psychology

• America is an outstandingly dangerous place. Consider this: every year in New Hampshire a dozen or more people are killed crashing their cars into moose. Now correct me if I am wrong, but this is not something that is likely to happen to you on the way home from Sainsbury's.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • People
  • Home
  • America

• The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • Truth
  • Responsibility
  • Media

• The Buddha-nature which is ours from the very beginning is like the sun which emerges from the clouds, or like a mirror which, when rubbed, regains its original purity and clarity.

  

  Edward Conze
  • Mirror
  • Clarity
  • Emerges

• I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.

  

  Jonathan Dimbleby