Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes

Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to think again.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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• I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Life
  • Live
  • Remember

• Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Diversity
  • Just
  • Big

• I am an Indian to the core.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Core
  • Indian

• 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'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Girl
  • Wrong
  • Choir

• It's actually harder to write a fun song.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Write

• Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Men
  • Children
  • American

• Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!

  

  Becky G
  • Time
  • Like
  • Got

• In the beginning, when I was doing my shows, I was incorporating a lot of Spanish, just trying to be a Latino comic instead of just a comic. Now I try to make the show as broad as possible... I don't want to alienate people. I want to make it so everybody can follow along and everybody can relate.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Trying
  • Beginning

• It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Want
  • Media
  • Democratic

• We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• Nothing means more to me than racing for my country, the Queen, the Royal Family, and the people back home that support me.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Country
  • Family

• People generally let me be me. People are aware that I'm not someone particularly begging for attention. They hold back a bit with me.

  

  Sade Adu
  • People
  • Attention
  • Hold

• My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Experience
  • Father
  • Game

• The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Joy

• I don't want to be conducting Mahler with my head stuffed full of 10 million notes from other composers.

  

  Lorin Maazel

• On March 5, I will behead Rafael dos Anjos. I will drag his head through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, through a parade of people I'd imagine. It will become a national holiday also I would imagine.

  

  Conor McGregor
  • People
  • Holiday
  • March

• The Communist Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Party
  • Struggle

• As an actress, weekends can be spent working, but my husband, Ryan, works regular hours as an analytics manager for L'Oreal.

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • Husband

• Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Good
  • Interesting
  • Purpose

• When I left for college, I told myself that this was a chance for reinvention. No one on the other side of the country knew that I was an introvert, so maybe if I tried not acting like an introvert, I wouldn't be one.

  

  Andrea Seigel
  • Country
  • College
  • Introvert

• In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.

  

  Patsy Kelly
  • Business

• Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.

  

  Martin Rees
  • Science
  • Culture
  • Encouraging

• Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to think again.

  

  Jonathan Dimbleby