Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
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A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.
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In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role.
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I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.
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When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
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People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But there was no conscience involved; that threw me more than anything.
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My two great treats in life are baked beans and vanilla ice-cream.
