Quotes by Jonathan Dimbleby - Page 1

The long, forensic interview really matters.
Jonathan Dimbleby / Presenter
Matters
Forensic
Interview
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I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.
Jonathan Dimbleby / Presenter
Art
Loss
Two
Bbc
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I adore Madonna. She reinvents herself like no one else.
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Herself
Madonna
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I hate flying. My stomach churns at the mere thought of it.
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Flying
Hate
Mere
Stomach
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My two great treats in life are baked beans and vanilla ice-cream.
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Beans
Treats
Vanilla
Baked
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You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.
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Certain
Damn
Umpires
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I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.
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Died
Facts
Ought
Principal
Rejoice
Rivals
Rival
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The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish.
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Load
Produce
Programmes
Rubbish
Wonderful
Bbc
Produces
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In the world in which we live, truth is an ancillary virtue, but it shouldn't be.
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Truth Is
Virtue
Truth World Live
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Food is important to me, but I wouldn't say that I'm a gourmet. I don't like tricksy food.
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Gourmet
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Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.
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Andrew
Long
Long Words
Names
Neil
Programme
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I was obliged to play the piano, like middle-class children are. I didn't start to love it until I was 14.
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Obliged
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The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.
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Moments
Obligation
Sound
Think Big
Thinking
Uncertain
Bbc
Moment Me Big
Note
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Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to think again.
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Broadcaster
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I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat.
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Battle
Believe
Cutting
Honestly
Throat
Generally
Ratings
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I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.
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Claims
Distinctive
Enough
Programmes
Range
Wide
Bbc
Claim
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The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales.
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Wales
Authoritative
Life Moment Character
Portrait
Seemed
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I was born with a silver microphone in my mouth, and that was an advantage. My father wrote books and was also a great broadcaster.
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Advantage
Silver
Broadcaster
Microphone
Mouth
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The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market.
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Challenges
Culture
Vision
Merely
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That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.
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Programmes
Broadcaster
Ratings
Test
Weigh
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For a few months when I was about 17, I smoked a small cigar because I thought it looked cool and it would get me the girls. It didn't.
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Smoked
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While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.
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Errors
Factual
Wales
Writing
Agreed
Corrected
Inhibited
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I was a reluctant convert, and I am by no means a zealot. But the evidence is compelling: to write off wind-power is either ill-informed or dishonest.
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Compelling
Reluctant
Convert
Dishonest
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It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night.
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Looks
New Ways
Night
Rooms
Thinking
Traditional
Reporter
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Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters.
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Archives
Diaries
Letters
Two
Years
Comb
Journals
Thousands
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Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last weeks winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong.
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Issues
Might
News
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Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong.
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Significance
Dealing
Suppose
Programme
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I've never been a depressive, but I felt quite close to the edge at times. But you never know what's around the corner. Mercifully, what's around the corner is joy.
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Depressive
Corner
Edge
Mercifully
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I was disappointed not to be able to interview Mr. Clinton. I met him two years ago. I was looking forward to talking with him about issues from Africa to terrorism.
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Able
Clinton
Disappointed
Looking Forward
Talking
Terrorism
Two
Years
Years Ago
Africa
Mr
Forward
Him
Interview
Met
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I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.
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Access
Biographies
Expectations
Source
Unprecedented
Biography
Entirely
Expectation
Sources
Unfettered
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I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for.
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Justify
Population
Programmes
Proportion
Significant
Tax
Understand
Entire
Exclude
Fail
Paying
Poll
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Ethiopia is engraved on my heart. I first went in 1973 because I heard of a terrible famine. They were denying it even as we got the film out. The coverage destroyed the emperor's credibility.
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Coverage
Credibility
Destroyed
Emperor
Engraved
Ethiopia
Famine
Heard
Terrible
Denying
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I cycle, I take an hour's strenuous walk in the evening, I play tennis twice a week with a trainer, and I sail. I used to ride horses professionally - I'd ride seven or eight horses a day, so I had to be fit for that.
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Eight
Evening
Fit
Sail
Seven
Tennis
Twice
Cycle
Walk
Horses
Hour
Professionally
Ride
Ride Horses
Strenuous
Trainer
Twice A Week
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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.
Jonathan Dimbleby / Presenter
Combination
Fortunate
Isolation
Wonderful Life
Life Great Joy
Be Happy
Dreadful
Great Deal
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Food is about communal togetherness. Our family does sit at the table. I think it's a great tragedy if a family doesn't have a table, as there is such an atmosphere of good will and warmth when we have eight people sitting around it.
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Atmosphere
Eight
Great Tragedy
Sitting
Togetherness
Tragedy
Warmth
Family Good Great
Family Good Food
Communal
Table
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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.
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Colombia
Evening
Meat
Memories
Programmes
Rats
Unusual
Good Food Memories
Tasted
Cage
Chose
Perfectly
Rabbit
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Until I was 21, I wasn't going into the media. I was a professional show jumper; I was going to have a farm... Then my father died, and it changed my life. I realised I had to have a go at being a journalist to see if I could cut the mustard.
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If I Could
Mustard
Realised
Life Father My Life
Farm
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Ever more people are alert to the challenge of global poverty and global warming. We know that solutions are at hand. We will not sleepwalk into catastrophe. We have the capacity to forsee and forestall, and I believe we will find the will to act
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Future
Believe
Hands
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As a young man, causes of one kind or another engaged me, and I thought the media is where you express yourself in that. I lived with the illusion, for quite a long time, that if you described something accurately, something would be done about it.
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Causes
Engaged
Express Yourself
Young Man
Time Done Man
Time Man Done
Quite A Long Time
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Recently, I had a hip resurfaced. It's different from a hip replacement because it's done with titanium. I like to think that it's the consequence of riding horses so strenuously, but I fear it's much more mundane and was just early-onset arthritis.
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Arthritis
Consequence
Mundane
Riding
Hip
Horses
Recently
Replacement
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Rolling my trousers down to expose the upper part of my buttocks and having a knife pressed up and down my spine by a Russian white witch, as she murmured incantations, was certainly a new experience to cure my backache. It was surprisingly soothing.
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Rolling
Soothing
Spine
Trousers
Up And Down
Witch
Cure
Expose
Pressed
Surprisingly
Upper
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I used to hunt as a child but gave up the chase in my 'Ho Ho Ho Chi-Minh, we shall fight and we shall win' chanting and marching days - by which time I had come to share Oscar Wilde's feelings about 'the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.'
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Chanting
Pursuit
Unspeakable
Wilde
Hunt
Marching
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My only real claim to fame is that I was southern England show-jumping champion in 1966. The day after my father died, 'Horse & Hound' magazine tipped me as a future Olympic champion, and I took it seriously. You can only really enjoy something if you take it seriously.
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Horse
Southern
Claim
Hound
Magazine
Olympic
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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.
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Degradation
Isolated
Ministers
Misery
Statistics
Witness
Life World Day
Devastating
Dollar
Insulated
Presidents
Prime Ministers
Rarely
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I have to grit my teeth sometimes, knowing I am going to be written about. But I think it is my life, and I don't want to get people interested in debating it. But I do feel that if you are going to put yourself about as a public person on a television screen, there's a curiosity.
Jonathan Dimbleby / Presenter
Curiosity
Grit
Teeth
Life Yourself I Am
Debating
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As it is, the grotesque distortions of the global market mean that for every dollar the West dispatches to Africa in the form of aid, two dollars are clawed back through subsidies and tariff barriers: a monumental rip-off by the rich as they instruct the poor to accept 'free' trade or else.
Jonathan Dimbleby / Presenter
Barriers
Free Trade
Grotesque
Subsidies
Trade
West
Accept
Africa
Aid
Dollar
Global
Global Market
Market
Monumental
Rip-Off
Tariff
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At home in Devon, my wife Jessica does a huge proportion of the cooking - I do the basics. My timing is extremely good, particularly when it comes to vegetables, perhaps because in my work, timing is everything. I know exactly what fits into a minute when broadcasting, and I apply the same to carrots.
Jonathan Dimbleby / Presenter
Home
Basics
Broadcasting
Carrots
Cooking
Devon
Huge
Jessica
Proportion
Timing
Timing Is Everything
Vegetables
Work Good Home
Apply
Does
Same
Exactly
Exactly What
Extremely
Fits
Particularly
Minute
Perhaps
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I am now certain that we have no alternative but to reduce urgently the levels of carbon that we are still pumping into the atmosphere as though tomorrow simply didn't matter. If we don't act collectively and individually, our children and their children will reap a whirlwind which will obliterate their civilisation.
Jonathan Dimbleby / Presenter
Atmosphere
Carbon
Civilisation
Levels
Reap
Tomorrow
Whirlwind
Alternative
Collectively
Individually
Obliterate
Pumping
Reduce
Urgently
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