Quotes by Dick Strawbridge - Page 1

I'm a very simple person.
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Simple Person
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Cooking is about ingredients.
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Ingredients
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My body was built through years of good food - and beer.
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Beer
Good Food
Good Food Body
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With a little bit of common sense, anything is achievable.
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Common Sense
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For me, London seemed to be frantic without going anywhere.
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Frantic
London
Anywhere
Seemed
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I had an idyllic childhood with the freedom to go and play.
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Childhood
Idyllic
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I could never work out how to shave my top lip without cutting myself.
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Cutting
Shave
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I was quite capable at school, but I spent a lot of time in detention.
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Detention
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For over 20 years, I was in the Army, and it's given me a real love of history.
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Army
Real Love
Love History Me
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I have always thought of myself as being Northern Irish because that's what I am.
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Myself I Am Always
Northern
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I've spent 20 years in the Army, and I'm just so fiercely proud of being British.
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Army
British
Fiercely
Spent
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I was captain of the rugby side at Shrivenham - as were my two brothers after me.
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Rugby
Brothers
Captain
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When I started presenting 'Scrapheap Challenge,' I was rubbish at tuning V8 engines.
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Engines
Presenting
Rubbish
Tuning
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Who doesn't like playing with a railway? I think we've all got Thomas the Tank Engine in our blood.
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Railway
Engine
Tank
Thomas
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Sadly, I have very vague memories of Burma. The family was forced to leave when the generals took over.
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Burma
Forced
Generals
Sadly
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As one of seven children, our family life was full of energy and fun - we all knew how to laugh and work hard.
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Family Life
Life Family Work
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My daughter, Charlotte Strawbridge, has recorded an album, and my favourite song from that is 'Empires Made Of Sand.'
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Daughter
Charlotte
Empires
Favourite
Made
Sand
Song
Album
Recorded
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I just think our British cuisine and the different influences we pull together make it special when it comes to food.
Dick Strawbridge /
Cuisine
Influences
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We forget the importance of engineering, but it's been used to design everything from St. Paul's Cathedral to The Shard.
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Engineering
Cathedral
Paul
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My old man used to say that I would argue the hind leg of a donkey. If I didn't agree with something, I wasn't prepared to accept it.
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Donkey
Old Man
Argue
Leg
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All insulation is environmentally friendly. Some installation has better environmental credentials, but what matters is the energy it saves.
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Environmental
Credentials
Energy
Friendly
Installation
Environmentally
Matters
Saves
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All insulation takes energy to make it, but that is not a reason not to invest in it. The savings, for both the planet and the bank account, can be impressive.
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Account
Bank
Bank Account
Invest
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Although I am the oldest with the biggest moustache, my brothers are progressively taller; I put it down to the extra potatoes they were able to eat after I left home.
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Moustache
Potatoes
Extra
Oldest
Taller
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When you work with people, you buy into it, you work together and you pull together. It doesn't matter what your challenge is: there's a sense of achievement at the end of it.
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Achievement
Work Together Your
Work Together
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There was always laughter in our house. And I have great memories of my dad making an Ulster fry on a Saturday morning. They were legendary even though he couldn't really cook.
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Dad
Great Memories
House
Laughter
Legendary
Memories
Saturday
Saturday Morning
Morning Great Dad
Cook
Fry
Though
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I was still a serving officer when I competed in 'Scrapheap Challenge,' initially as a major and then a lieutenant-colonel when I was joined by my brothers in a team called 'Brothers in Arms.'
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Arms
Serving
Team
Then
Brothers
Challenge
Still
Initially
Major
Joined
Officer
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For a nation that spends a lot of time talking about the weather, we don't seem to realise just how much sunshine we actually get. Maybe that's because we tend to concentrate on the negative aspects.
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Negative
Sunshine
Weather
Aspects
Concentrate
How Much
Realise
Seem
Tend
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I passed the 11-plus and went up to the senior school, where my two older sisters had already gone. I was in the 'A' stream, but in the third year, they asked me to give up Latin; no one had ever got 7 per cent before.
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Latin
Senior
Asked
Sisters
Cent
Older
Per
Passed
Stream
Third
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When I joined the Army in the late '70s, there was a real threat from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, so all of the '80s, I was engaged in what could be classed as conventional operations - that involved digging lots of trenches in Germany.
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Army
Conventional
Digging
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Engaged
Europe
Germany
Involved
Late
Operations
Soviet
Soviet Union
Trenches
Lots
Joined
Union
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I left the Army in 2000 and went into industry before I started appearing on TV in 2003. My best job there was on a series called 'Crafty Tricks Of War' for the BBC. I loved that because it celebrated how clever and inventive people are and the ingenuity that goes into solving problems.
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Appearing
Army
Clever
Crafty
Ingenuity
Bbc
Celebrated
Inventive
Solving
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