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" I adore Madonna. She reinvents herself like no one else. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
She
Else
Herself
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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. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Evening
Day
Week
" I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Rejoice
Rival
Principal
" 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
Think
Family
Food
" The long, forensic interview really matters. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Interview
Matters
Long
" I don't love the media. I'm part of it, but you can't love a porcupine. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
You
Part
Media
" 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
Write
Either
Am
" 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
Born
Father
Great
" Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to think again. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Become
Order
You
" In the world in which we live, truth is an ancillary virtue, but it shouldn't be. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
World
Virtue
Live
" 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. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Good
White
Food
" Food is important to me, but I wouldn't say that I'm a gourmet. I don't like tricksy food. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Like
Me
Say
" I hate flying. My stomach churns at the mere thought of it. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Stomach
Flying
Hate
" 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
People
" 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. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Live
Poverty
Day
" Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
He
Long
Names
" 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.' "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Child
Win
Time
" 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
Week
Wrong
" 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
Prince
Original
" 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
Accept
Rich
Africa
" 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
Me
Champion
Day
" 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. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Life
My Life
Media
" The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
BBC
Rubbish
Load
" 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
Yourself
Curiosity
I Am
" 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. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Free
Years
Two
" It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but rather more testing to act on it. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Opinion
More
Enough
" 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. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
New
Think
Night
" 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. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
New
She
Experience
" You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Better
You
Something
" 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
Two
Looking Forward
Looking
" 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
Children
Matter
Tomorrow