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" A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman. "

" All these other creatures have an equal right to exist here. We have no prior rights to the Earth than anybody else, and if they're here, let's give them a chance to survive. "

" Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. "

" Everyone has to have a sense of duty. A duty to society, to their family. I mean, you name it. "

" Everything that wasn't invented by God is invented by an engineer. "

" I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his children. "

" I can't remember names and things. "

" I didn't want to be president of the World Wildlife Fund. I was asked to do it. I'd much rather have stayed in the navy, frankly. "

" I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing. "

" If anything, I've thought of myself as Scandinavian. Particularly, Danish. We spoke English at home. "

" I had been playing polo, and I decided to give up at the age of 50. "

" I have frequently been misrepresented. I don't hate the press; I find a lot of it is very unpalatable. "

" In the first years of the Queen's reign, the level of adulation - you wouldn't believe it. You really wouldn't. "

" I reckon I've done my bit. I want to enjoy myself a bit now, with less responsibility, less frantic rushing about, less preparation, less trying to think of something to say. "

" It's better to get out before you reach the sell-by date. "

" It's much better to go when you are still capable than wait until people say you're so doddery it's time you went. "

" It would have been very easy to play to the gallery, but I took a conscious decision not to do that. Safer not to be too popular. You can't fall too far. "

" Occasionally I get fed up, going to visit a factory, when I am being shown around by the chairman, who clearly hasn't got a clue, and I try to get hold of the factory manager, but I can't because the chairman wants to make sure he's the one in all the photographs. "

" People can't get their heads round the idea of a species surviving; you know, they're more concerned about how you treat a donkey in Sicily or something. "

" The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined. "

" There was no precedent. If I asked somebody, 'What do you expect me to do?' they all looked blank. They had no idea; nobody had much idea. "

" We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves. "

" When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. "

" You can't just decide you want to do this or that. You have to be invited. "

" You don't really want nonagenarians as heads of organisations which are trying to do something useful. "

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