Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes

It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but rather more testing to act on it.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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• This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Understanding
  • Living
  • Field

• Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Together
  • Dark
  • Chocolate

• In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Death
  • Terrorism
  • Sickness

• I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Internet

• I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Men
  • Why
  • May

• If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • You
  • Never
  • Location

• The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Real
  • Attention
  • Problem

• I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • World
  • Want
  • I Can

• Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.

  

  Sam Childers
  • America
  • Bad
  • Want

• I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Real
  • Strange
  • Be Real

• Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Happy
  • Myself
  • Frame

• Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • See
  • Everything
  • Got

• There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Good
  • Work
  • Home

• My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • World
  • Experience
  • Interesting

• The truth is I love musical theater and always have.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Truth
  • Always
  • Theater

• Most of the time I like to start an album abroad, not at home, just to avoid the pressure, to not wake up and think, 'OK, it's the first of recording this album.' I like to avoid that.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

• What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Say
  • Wrong
  • View

• Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Talk
  • News
  • Radio

• This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans.

  

  Dennis Kucinich
  • Soul
  • Party
  • Struggle

• I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Politics

• Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his specialty alone.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Talent
  • Escape
  • Strive

• Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Men
  • Night

• It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but rather more testing to act on it.

  

  Jonathan Dimbleby
  • Opinion