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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. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Two
Looking Forward
Looking
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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
Life
Great
People
" I was obliged to play the piano, like middle-class children are. I didn't start to love it until I was 14. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
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Play
Start
" 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. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
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Edge
Corner
" 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
" 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
" 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
" In the world in which we live, truth is an ancillary virtue, but it shouldn't be. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
World
Virtue
Live
" 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. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Errors
Prince
Truth
" 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
" 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'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Claim
Making
Make
" The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Moment
Uncertain
Think
" I adore Madonna. She reinvents herself like no one else. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
She
Else
Herself
" 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
" Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
He
Long
Names
" 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
" 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
Understand
You
Justify
" I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Rejoice
Rival
Principal
" 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
Small
Get
Thought
" It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but rather more testing to act on it. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Opinion
More
Enough
" 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
First
Heart
Film
" 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
" The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
BBC
Rubbish
Load
" 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
" You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Better
You
Something
" My two great treats in life are baked beans and vanilla ice-cream. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Life
Great
Treats
" 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
" That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Matter
Knowledge
Public
" 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
Me
Yourself
Time
" 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