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" The long, forensic interview really matters. "

Jonathan Dimbleby

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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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" It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but rather more testing to act on it. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" My two great treats in life are baked beans and vanilla ice-cream. "

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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 deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two. "

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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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" 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 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. "

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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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" The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish. "

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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. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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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" Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words. "

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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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" Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to think again. "

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" I adore Madonna. She reinvents herself like no one else. "

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" 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. "

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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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" The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales. "

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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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