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Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes

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.

Jonathan Dimbleby

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Me Cool Small Thought Because Get

The '90s were extremely diverse, almost like a laboratory of the new century. There was much experimenting around, in politics, economics, gender and family structures, and also in fashion. There was a cloud of possibilities which kept us all dizzy.

Family Politics Economics Fashion Us

The reason that I like to use classical myths as models is because African American writers and African American stories are usually understood as occurring in some kind of vacuum - because of slavery.

Slavery American Kind Reason Vacuum

No man's credit is as good as his money.

Good Money Man Credit His

Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.

Experience Conflict Building End

E-cigarettes are a tobacco product.

Product Tobacco

My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars - not like pop stars that you have now. They had to make a living and that meant touring, working hard, going on the road - and we were roped in.

Rufus Wainwright

Stars Parents Road Musicians You

Walking is pretty easy. You just have to be confident, like not caring. And honestly, people think about their walk too much, so they try to do something really interesting, but the designers hate it.

Lucky Blue Smith

Hate Walk Caring People Think You

God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.

Life God Together You Way Glue

I think way back, the '20s or the '30s, when Kodak came out with the Brownie and they put a list of instructions on the box, like how to use this thing, I think someone arbitrarily said, 'Make sure the person in the photograph is smiling.' And we went from that one sort of set of industrial instructions to this whole culture of perkiness.

Douglas Coupland

Culture Think Someone Smiling Back

There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard. In order to respond to that, he had to become a hard man, with very hard rules, very hard discipline for himself, very hard days, hard work, et cetera.

Clarence Thomas

Life Work Hard Work Discipline Man

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

Arthur Erickson

Great Events Renaissance Historical

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