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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I was an expert horseman.
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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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As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.
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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 parents lived, breathed, ate and slept theatre. Emotions were right on the surface. Growing up, the unreal had as much importance as the real.
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We are perhaps too near the age of transition to see clearly the interplay of all that made for progress. Each of us has had his own peculiar training, his own personal contact with the mighty ones of the immediate past; and this forms as it were a telescopic tube determining limits to our field of vision. No doubt we may range the whole horizon; but after all we look from our own point of vantage.
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My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years.
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It's a short work week, so Wednesday is a big day for us because we only get two work days, really. We're going hard and we're going late.
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I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.
