Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes

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.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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Author Biography

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

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I was a very shy child. I remember being in a kindergarten open house with my mother and children saying 'Hi' to me, and I still remember feeling this way - but I don't know why - but I wouldn't even say 'Hi' back. I was that shy.

Jim Parsons

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Some guys lay their fannies out there every night - they play the game at such a high level, and they give so much that, frankly, they don't get credit for it. And I think it's tragic sometimes.

Jerry West

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The word of God - what does it say about what his place is going to be in the Kingdom? Think about it.

Stephen Baldwin

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Abortion is wrong. I think everyone knows that, which is why abortion activists are so angry all the time. It's a bit like when you catch someone out in a lie, and they get really mad at you really quickly, and you can't work out why until later. It's guilt.

Milo Yiannopoulos

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I was 22 and had worked on Wall Street for a year, and quit my job. I bought a motorcycle and sort of had this fantasy that I'd go cross-country like 'Easy Rider.' I went from New York to L.A., and on the way back, I stopped in Chicago and saw a friend of mine who was into improv. And I figured it might be fun to give it a shot.

Jon Favreau

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I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.

Dean Kamen

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Anything I get to wear to the Met Ball is huge. I'm not a fashion girl, so it's cool to be dolled up and have those diamonds where they send armed guards with you.

Chrissy Teigen

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I have started that which the country will not willingly let die.

Cleveland Abbe

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To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

Booker T. Washington

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When I do actual sequential work, I really want a story I can get a behind: a story that really holds my attention for, like, the length of what I'll be working on.

Brian Stelfreeze

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I'm very aware of what you're talking about as I was involved with the radio in Africa in the same period as I was doing Concrete - I was doing both at the same time.

Pierre Schaeffer

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I am a direct person.

Susan Rice

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