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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There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so... their position is almost laughably hopeless.
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John Gilbert was perfectly willing to jump into talkies. He had as good a voice as Clark Gable. There was such a divide between the silent and talkies. There was no logic to who survived and who didn't.
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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Any actor who says he does not like so many people shouting his name would be lying.
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A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.
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I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.
