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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. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Moment
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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 ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't. "
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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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