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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. "

Jonathan Dimbleby

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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. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words. "

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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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" I don't love the media. I'm part of it, but you can't love a porcupine. "

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" It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but rather more testing to act on it. "

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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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" My two great treats in life are baked beans and vanilla ice-cream. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" The long, forensic interview really matters. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two. "

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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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" 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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" I hate flying. My stomach churns at the mere thought of it. "

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" I adore Madonna. She reinvents herself like no one else. "

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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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" You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place. "

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