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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. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Matter
Knowledge
Public
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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 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
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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
Small
Get
Thought
" I don't love the media. I'm part of it, but you can't love a porcupine. "
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Part
Media
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Wife
Good
Know
" 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
" The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Me
Moment
Character
" 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 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. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Place
Challenge
You
" Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
He
Long
Names
" I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Rejoice
Rival
Principal
" The long, forensic interview really matters. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Interview
Matters
Long
" I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Own
Battle
Obsessed
" 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
" 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
" I adore Madonna. She reinvents herself like no one else. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
She
Else
Herself
" Recently, I had a hip resurfaced. It's different from a hip replacement because it's done with titanium. I like to think that it's the consequence of riding horses so strenuously, but I fear it's much more mundane and was just early-onset arthritis. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Like
Think
More
" 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
" The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
BBC
Rubbish
Load
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" My two great treats in life are baked beans and vanilla ice-cream. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Life
Great
Treats
" 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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Accept
Rich
Africa
" I hate flying. My stomach churns at the mere thought of it. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Stomach
Flying
Hate