Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes
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I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
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'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.
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Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years.
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Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.
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Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
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I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.
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I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options.
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Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mean dislike, or feel uncomfortable with. I mean hate. Downright hate. Down and dirty hate.
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My children are my life. They're so spectacular.
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For one thing, you need a lot of self-confidence to be on the top of your field. There are times probably where I appear to be over-confident or arrogant. It's really in the eye of the beholder.
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I love to smoke. I wish I had more than two hands so I can hold more cigars...
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Beyonce is cool, and she can really sing.
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The day of the march, we were forbidden to go to the march site. The man I worked for, the Presbyterian minister, knew we would want to be sort of martyrs for the cause and risk arrest. He didn't want any of that going on. So he made us stay in the neighborhood.
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I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.
