Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes
I have a great deal of joy in my life, and I'm very fortunate. That combination makes you aware of just how wonderful life can be on the one hand and how dreadful it can be for people on the other. You can't be happy in isolation.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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People - and dogs - are dying to be trained.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
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Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
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My mom has always been a huge inspiration. She was a single mom raising two kids in New York. Now that is full-on all the time.
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From Day 1 I wasn't planning to run until I am very old.
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I was a very extrovert kid. It felt normal to me to act. I always went to regular schools. I've never been catty or a prima donna, so I never had problems. I always had my seat at the cafeteria when I came back from acting.
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I had heard so much negative talk about our generation, that we're slackers and young fogies, that I knew wasn't true of the people I know.
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I have a great deal of joy in my life, and I'm very fortunate. That combination makes you aware of just how wonderful life can be on the one hand and how dreadful it can be for people on the other. You can't be happy in isolation.
