Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes
I cycle, I take an hour's strenuous walk in the evening, I play tennis twice a week with a trainer, and I sail. I used to ride horses professionally - I'd ride seven or eight horses a day, so I had to be fit for that.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.
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Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
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You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
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It's funny, I used to say on 'That 70's Show', you could really put us in any decade, and it was about the people and the characters and that we cared about each other.
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I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
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We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
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I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.
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The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.
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My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes.
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'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.
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Thomas Tuchel is a coach who can work in the long-term.
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If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.
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I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.
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Unfortunately, we have a tendency to see figures from the past as caricatures - either all good or all bad - when the truth is always much more complex.
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History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
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We had so many of our fans tell us how worthless they felt before they found out about us and watched our interviews and listened to our music.
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A lot of the actors I knew threw in the towel when they became mothers. I couldn't do that financially, and I didn't want to - but I was knackered all the time.
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My tennis skills are okay.
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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.
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I cycle, I take an hour's strenuous walk in the evening, I play tennis twice a week with a trainer, and I sail. I used to ride horses professionally - I'd ride seven or eight horses a day, so I had to be fit for that.
