Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes

Travelling to make television programmes means I have some unusual food memories. In Pasto, Colombia, I was taken to a restaurant where I chose my meat for the evening from a cage of white rats. It tasted perfectly good - like rabbit.

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• A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

  

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• Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.

  

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• After being nearly eradicated from the lower 48 states by the 1960s, bald eagles were re-introduced to the Adirondacks in the 1980s, and I'm proud to report the view from my home indicates they are flourishing in upstate New York.

  

  Frances Beinecke
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• The hair department on 'Game of Thrones' is incredible.

  

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• If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.

  

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• I was sitting alone in a grim mood – furious that the press attacked Senator Edwards on the price of a haircut. But it inspired me – from now on, all haircuts, etc., that are necessary and important for his campaign – please send the bills to me... It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions.

  

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• I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.

  

  Jack Kemp
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• I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

  

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• On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.

  

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• I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.

  

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• The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

  

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• Everyone takes a bad selfie - the first thing is to know that.

  

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• My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.

  

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• I just want to be at peace with myself, personally and professionally. I want to lead my life the way I want to without having to worry about what the other person may be thinking. Professionally again, I would like to be able to just do films that I want to without having to explain my reasons to my friends, family and fans.

  

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• Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

  

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• My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

  

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• If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.

  

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• When I write, I want something to sound good itself.

  

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• I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.

  

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• It's difficult to explain exactly how I react to music, but if it makes me feel anything at all, then I'll have some kind of emotional relationship to it. That's what defines good music to me - if it makes me truly feel something.

  

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• When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way, I had kind of an aspiration to disconnect them, to just kind of go into a totally musical world.

  

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• One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no robust magic tricks. They're all hanging from a thread - sometimes literally.

  

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• Travelling to make television programmes means I have some unusual food memories. In Pasto, Colombia, I was taken to a restaurant where I chose my meat for the evening from a cage of white rats. It tasted perfectly good - like rabbit.

  

  Jonathan Dimbleby
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