Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes

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.

Jonathan Dimbleby

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: July 31, 1944

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What I can't tell is, I don't know if there's a subliminal resistance to the idea of a sequel to 'The Phantom of the Opera' anyway.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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I love Cillian Murphy's character in 'Peaky Blinders' and Tom Hardy's in 'Taboo' - theses are characters that, as audience members, we follow along with and root for. But our own morality is tested throughout that journey, because these characters ride a thin line between morality and amorality.

Stana Katic

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My definition of a good hotel is a place I'd stay at.

Robert De Niro

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'Post 9/11 Blues' is an observational satire about the surreal circus of fear at that time. It's a generational thing.

Riz Ahmed

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I know at one point I had bright red hair and I had bracelets from my wrist up to my elbow and I was wearing size 50 pants. I wouldn't wear that today, but I'm not embarrassed about wearing it back then any more.

Mike Shinoda

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A kid is something precious, and you want to protect it and keep it fun. I'm not a dad, but I've seen people and how they behave with their kids.

Jason Statham

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Maureen O'Sullivan did 'Hannah and Her Sisters' with Mia Farrow, her daughter, but O'Sullivan had a very minor role.

Diane Ladd

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If I can't negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I'm not a very good representative of my party.

Chuck Grassley

We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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Is it or is it not ethical to create an embryo, and to create a person for the purpose of getting an organ to give to someone else? Your knee-jerk reaction is 'absolutely not;' but you need the ethical analysis of that to show why and how that is something that you need to stay away from.

Anthony Fauci

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I am very pro-royal. Britain without them would be a sadder place.

Alison Jackson

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Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

Peter Ustinov

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