Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes

As it is, the grotesque distortions of the global market mean that for every dollar the West dispatches to Africa in the form of aid, two dollars are clawed back through subsidies and tariff barriers: a monumental rip-off by the rich as they instruct the poor to accept 'free' trade or else.

Jonathan Dimbleby

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FreeRichBackAcceptAfricaPoor

I would like to tell stories through the lens of the gay person, but not just for gay people.

Andrew Rannells

PeopleGayPersonLensThroughTell

I read 'The Hobbit' only when I was an adult. I had a lot of friends, teenagers, who discovered reading through 'The Hobbit,' but it wasn't something that I discovered until later in life.

Matthew Reilly

LifeReadingFriendsAdultSomething

The weirdest thing about a mind is that you can have the most intense things going on in there, but no one else can see them.

Matt Haig

MindYouSeeThingsGoingIntense

It's my job to stretch and figure out what I'm capable of, to identify with the character I have chosen to play.

Michael Ealy

CharacterJobPlayCapableOut

When results aren't good the manager gets the sack, that's the game.

Roy Keane

GoodGameResultsManagerSackGets

I would like to never ever think about any political issues.

Deborah Eisenberg

ThinkPoliticalNeverWouldLike

You shouldn't have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you're going to die. You ought to plan these things out. And I don't have any problem with things like living wills. But they ought to be done within the family.

Chuck Grassley

LifeFamilyEndDieProblemPlan

If you share an office next to a guy for twenty years, and you like him and you're friends with him, it's hard to tell him that you think that his whole idea of how the universe works is completely wrong.

Antony Garrett Lisi

ThinkUniverseFriendsYouWrong

Radio is immediate.

Wink Martindale

RadioImmediate

My objective is to fulfil the dream of Bangabandhu through building a hunger- and poverty-free Golden Bangladesh being imbued with the spirit of the War of Liberation.

Sheikh Hasina

WarBuildingDreamGoldenSpirit

Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny thing happened along the way - I kept having new ideas, and then I looked up one day, and 30 years had passed!

Nikki Grimes

FunnyChildrenFocusDayIdeasNew

I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.

Nora Roberts

WriteRomanceEnjoyedCategoryThem

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