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" Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine. "

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" I have no limo. In cities, I usually hail a taxi like everyone else. "

" I made my first million by the time I was 31 and promptly lost it when I got divorced. "

" Would I have voted to leave the European Union? Yes, I would. My theory there is that Britain was fed up having won two World Wars against the Germans and had reached the boiling and breaking point of being told where to live and what to do by a bunch of bureaucrats in Belgium. It was out of that frustration that the vote to leave was made. "

" I know that people hate me. And I know I'm just a hack journalist and what we do on 'Lifestyles' isn't what you would call television brain surgery. "

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" I developed the pilot for 'Entertainment Tonight' with Jack Haley, Jr. and Al Masini, who became my business partner in 'Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous,' 'Runaway' and several other shows and specials. "

" Back on Nov. 23, 1963, I sailed into Manhattan Harbor onboard the Queen Mary and landed with no job and contacts and just $135 in my pocket. My first lodging was in a rundown hotel for $27 a week with the bathroom down the end of a corridor of beds. "

" In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine. "

" I've never shied away from hard work. "

" I built the ideal house down in the Caribbean. All Englishmen dream of leaving the rain of England and getting a place in the sun - out in the grounds with separate guest houses; that is the ideal scenario. "

" It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich. "

" No other entertainer in the world ever took the risks that Liberace took. "

" Emeril is a one-in-a-million Renaissance man. In 2002, he established his foundation to support children's educational programs to inspire and mentor young people through culinary arts, school food and nutrition. "

" It greatly upsets me when I'm called a journalistic toad - I mean, I am a journalist! "

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" Burnout comes easy in the high-pressure world of television, and when the opportunity arose to move to Las Vegas and bring my friends and star chefs to open their restaurants at the Venetian, I made the move here. "

" I helped launch 'ET'... I like to see things start, grow, and then move on to better things. "

" Celebrities are nowhere as rich as some people think they are. "

" There's no point in retiring because there's no fun in retiring. "

" I like to say that it never rains on 'Lifestyles.' There is no bad news. It's a very up show. "

" Nothing gets my journalistic juices flowing more than a seaside chalet, the mention of a private jet, or room service in St. Tropez. "

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" I've always been a gypsy. "

" I am a creator of TV shows. 'Lifestyle' ran for 14 years... that was pleasurable. We also had 'Runaway' for eight years. We did two years of a show called 'The Start of Something Big', and we did a network series called 'Fame, Fortune and Romance.' "

" I wanted no other job than to work in newspapers. I was fascinated by the process of collecting information, talking to people and having the story appear in a paper that would be delivered in your letterbox. "

" I don't follow English soccer because it's become a game for hooligans. "

" I've made it a habit not to burn any bridges. "

" There has always been something about the biggest, the wealthiest, the best-known, the most prestigious that has appealed to me. It's always seemed to me that that is what people want to know about. "

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" I like to see things start, grow, and then move on to better things. "

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