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" 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
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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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" 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 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. "
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" My two great treats in life are baked beans and vanilla ice-cream. "
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" At home in Devon, my wife Jessica does a huge proportion of the cooking - I do the basics. My timing is extremely good, particularly when it comes to vegetables, perhaps because in my work, timing is everything. I know exactly what fits into a minute when broadcasting, and I apply the same to carrots. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to think again. "
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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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" I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat. "
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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. "
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Matters
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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 was born with a silver microphone in my mouth, and that was an advantage. My father wrote books and was also a great broadcaster. "
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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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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Week
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