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Jonathan Dimbleby
Jonathan Dimbleby
British Writer
Born: Jul 31, 1944
Been Great Life Me Think You
Related authors: Alan Moore Arthur Conan Doyle J. B. Priestley Jane Austen Lawrence Durrell Mary Wollstonecraft Norman Douglas Tom Hodgkinson
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
Life Great You Be Happy Happy People Joy Wonderful Great Deal My Life Isolation Other Dreadful Combination Deal Makes How Hand Very Wonderful Life Just Fortunate Aware
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
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My two great treats in life are baked beans and vanilla ice-cream. Jonathan Dimbleby
Life Great Vanilla Beans Baked Two Treats
The long, forensic interview really matters. Jonathan Dimbleby
Long Matters Interview Forensic Really
You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place. Jonathan Dimbleby
You Better Damn Something Putting Place Certain
Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words. Jonathan Dimbleby
Saying Words Long Changed Neil Andrew He Long Words Names Been Using Programme
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. Jonathan Dimbleby
News You Winner Every Significance Week Wrong Suppose Global Dealing Got Issues Might Last Programme
The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish. Jonathan Dimbleby
Wonderful Old Programmes Rubbish Also Produces Load
That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter. Jonathan Dimbleby
Knowledge Matter Programmes Broadcaster About Ratings Weigh Test Public Should
I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two. Jonathan Dimbleby
Loss Arts Two
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. Jonathan Dimbleby
You Programmes Significant Entire Proportion Fail Exclude Understand How Poll Tax Justify Paying Population
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. Jonathan Dimbleby
You Culture Vision Challenge Big Market Merely Place
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. Jonathan Dimbleby
Me Expectation Would Unprecedented Entirely Had Prince Untapped Access Sources Offer Unfettered Which Original Based Biography
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. Jonathan Dimbleby
Terrorism Looking Met Interview Able About Disappointed Looking Forward Him Talking Issues Years Years Ago Clinton Africa Forward Two
Food is important to me, but I wouldn't say that I'm a gourmet. I don't like tricksy food. Jonathan Dimbleby
Food Me Important Say Like Gourmet
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. Jonathan Dimbleby
Good Food Great Family People Will Sit Think Our Table Atmosphere About Great Tragedy Around Does Tragedy Sitting Eight Communal Warmth Togetherness
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. Jonathan Dimbleby
Me Thought Girl Few Months Would About Small Looked Smoked Because Get Cool
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. Jonathan Dimbleby
Future Day Me You Champion Seriously Father Enjoy Took Claim Magazine Something Only Horse Take Hound Real Fame Southern Died After Really England Olympic
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. Jonathan Dimbleby
Heart First Destroyed Out Emperor Terrible Because Got Were Coverage Heard Denying Famine Ethiopia Even Engraved Film Credibility
I hate flying. My stomach churns at the mere thought of it. Jonathan Dimbleby
Hate Thought Flying Mere Stomach
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. Jonathan Dimbleby
Time Me You Man Yourself Illusion Thought Long Long Time Young Kind Would Would-Be About Something Another Causes Accurately Done Quite Quite A Long Time Where Young Man Engaged Express Express Yourself Lived Media
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. Jonathan Dimbleby
Great Father Mouth Broadcaster Books Born Silver Advantage Also Wrote Microphone
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
Matter Tomorrow Will Reap Pumping Our Though Collectively Atmosphere Civilisation Obliterate Simply Individually Alternative Reduce Am Still Children Which Urgently Whirlwind Certain Act Now Carbon Levels
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. Jonathan Dimbleby
Evidence Reluctant Write Am Off Dishonest Either Convert Means Compelling

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