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" There is an old show business saying which warns never to work with animals or children, but nobody prepared me for Molly Meldrum. "

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" It's always marvelous to have somebody who, you know, you feel understands and wants to encourage. "

" Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress? "

" Perhaps it has been too uncomfortable for those with vested interests to acknowledge, but we have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have. "

" As you may possibly have noticed from time to time, I have tended to make a habit of sticking my head above the parapet and generally getting it shot off for pointing out what has always been blindingly obvious to me. "

" On an increasingly crowded planet, humanity faces many threats - but none is greater than climate change. It magnifies every hazard and tension of our existence. "

" Congratulations to 'Countdown' - it was an evening I will never forget - and a special thank you to Molly Meldrum. "

" We need to be realistic. There is very little we can do now to stop the ice from disappearing from the North Pole in the summer. And we probably cannot prevent the melting of the permafrost and the resulting release of methane. In addition, I fear that we may be too late to help the oceans maintain their ability to absorb carbon dioxide. "

" That's called a microphone. It's a big sausage that picks up everything you say - and you're starting early. "

" All the time I feel I must justify my existence. "

" The whole of the 20th century has always put the car at the center. So by putting the pedestrian first, you create these livable places, I think, with more attraction and interest and character. "

" For me, Lord Mountbatten represented the grandfather I never had. "

" Women are not automatically second-class citizens because they live in Islamic countries. We cannot judge the position of women in Islam aright if we take the most conservative Islamic states as representative of the whole. "

" The whole of nature cries out at our mistreatment of her. If the planet were a patient, we would have treated her long ago. "

" Your greatest achievement is to love me. "

" It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything - until, that is, it comes to climate science. "

" I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet. "

" You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that. "

" Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes. "

" The mistake is to think that clever technology can solve everything, but it can't solve our relationship with nature, which is where I think it's gone wrong in that we have somehow abandoned our proper connection with nature. "

" I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents. "

" Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth. "

" It's always nice to have somebody on your side. "

" I'd rather go by bus. "

" As long as I do not take myself too seriously, I should not be too badly off. "

" I have for some time now been deeply troubled by the growing difficulties faced by Christian communities in various parts of the Middle East. It seems to me that we cannot ignore the fact that Christians in the Middle East are increasingly being deliberately targeted by fundamentalist Islamist militants. "

" Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ. "

" I find myself born into this particular position. I'm determined to make the most of it and to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them. "

" I think I can safely say that, as adolescents, most people have excess energy to spare and need adventure, excitement, and a challenge. "

" I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability. "

" We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it. "