Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes
Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact of global poverty. They read the statistics, but they rarely witness at first hand the misery and degradation of life on a dollar a day.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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Anything you're interested in the world - whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop - they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.
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I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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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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I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
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In Holland, we have a saying: 'A knife cuts on two sides.' With the rubber duck, I'm trying to show people what they haven't been seeing in their public space. When the rubber duck is there and when it's gone, you know.
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In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.
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I wish that when we weren't filming, we could have full privacy. I wish I could live in a bubble and just be with my family.
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In the world of comedy, having a partner is not the most unusual thing.
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Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.
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Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact of global poverty. They read the statistics, but they rarely witness at first hand the misery and degradation of life on a dollar a day.
