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" You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place. "
Jonathan Dimbleby
Better
You
Something
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" I adore Madonna. She reinvents herself like no one else. "
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" My two great treats in life are baked beans and vanilla ice-cream. "
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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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" 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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" Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters. "
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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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" I used to hunt as a child but gave up the chase in my 'Ho Ho Ho Chi-Minh, we shall fight and we shall win' chanting and marching days - by which time I had come to share Oscar Wilde's feelings about 'the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.' "
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" I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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Knowledge
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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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" 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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" Food is about communal togetherness. Our family does sit at the table. I think it's a great tragedy if a family doesn't have a table, as there is such an atmosphere of good will and warmth when we have eight people sitting around it. "
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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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" Ethiopia is engraved on my heart. I first went in 1973 because I heard of a terrible famine. They were denying it even as we got the film out. The coverage destroyed the emperor's credibility. "
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" 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. "
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" I hate flying. My stomach churns at the mere thought of it. "
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" I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based. "
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" I've never been a depressive, but I felt quite close to the edge at times. But you never know what's around the corner. Mercifully, what's around the corner is joy. "
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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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