Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes
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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.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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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.
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If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
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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.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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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.
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My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
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The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
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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.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
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In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.
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Manipulations of opinion, insofar as they are inspired by well-defined interests, have limited goals; their effect, however, if they happen to touch upon an issue of authentic concern, is no longer subject to their control and may easily produce consequences they never foresaw or intended.
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There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it's all just noise that lets me know that I'm relevant.
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No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.
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It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but rather more testing to act on it.
