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At last someone takes me seriously.
Jeremy Paxman / Journalist
Lasts
Take Me
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I got fed up of listening to bollocks
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Fed Up
Feds
Listening
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It's stupid to have a simple-minded view.
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Simple
Stupid
Views
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I find it odd that people take me seriously.
Jeremy Paxman / Journalist
Odd
People
Take Me
Me People Find
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The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly.
Jeremy Paxman / Journalist
Cures
Cynicism
Honestly
Cure
Engage
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I hate the word 'sneering', I can't help the way my face looks.
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Hate
Looks
Way
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Sharing holiday snaps on social media is an act of arrogant vanity.
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Holiday
Media
Vanity
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I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.
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Awkward
Felt
Outsiders
Outsider
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Has there ever been a visitor to Ludlow who hasn't wished they lived there?
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The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.
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Funny
Business
Humor
Bird
Cheese
Early Bird
May
Get
Early
Mouse
Second
Worm
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The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.
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Approach
Ideas
Neglect
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Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing.
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Activity
Britain
Depressing
Leisure
Watching Tv
Tv
Find
Popular
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Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots.
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Boss
Insulting
Television
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I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?
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Faces
Horse
Whole Life
Spent
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The promise of Western capitalism of ever rising rates of pay has turned out to be the cheque that bounced
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Pay
Promise
Rising
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I have not a clue why they sent it to me. As far as I know I have not got a reputation as a receiver of stolen goods.
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America
Reputation
World
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It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.
Jeremy Paxman / Journalist
Answers
Cynicism
Giving
People
Remove
Me People Way
Straight
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I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.
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Life
Backwards
Interest
Live Life
Looking Forward
Life Always Live
Ancestors
Forwards
No Interest
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I'm afraid I tend to be thinking about things and not paying sufficient attention to one's posture, deportment and general cast of face.
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Attention
Faces
Thinking
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The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?
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Fund
Ideas
Machines
Ownership
People
Washing
Why Not
Tax
Belongs
Machine
Manufacture
Washing Machine
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Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.
Jeremy Paxman / Journalist
Block
Cynicism
Journalist
Scepticism
Becomes
Close
Necessary
Search
Vital
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The defining problem of contemporary television is trust: Can you believe what you see on television, does television treat people fairly, is it healthy for society?
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Believe
Healthy
People
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It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.
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Bears
May
Relation
Schooled
Wish
Bear
Politicians
Spokesman
Vested
Vested Interest
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I voted against Gerald Nabarro in my first general election, but my defiance made no difference. If you had put a Conservative rosette on a mustachioed hamster, it would have been elected.
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America
Differences
World
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It would be unforgivable to use the role I have, such as it is, to inflict my incoherent, half-baked view of the world on people. That would be illegitimate and unacceptable and I should be fired.
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People
Views
Would Be
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At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and they just don't leave you alone. People have less time just to drop into an art gallery.
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Art
Beck And Call
Employers
Gallery
People
Beck
Drop
Alone Work Time
Less Time
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Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick.
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Armageddon
Characteristic
Facing
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Ones teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.
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Teacher
Country
Leaving
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One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.
Jeremy Paxman / Journalist
Adolescence
Extraordinary
Leaving
Narrative
Teachers
Considered
Belonged
Drove
Effect
Empire
Imperialist
Throughout
Viewed
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[Cycling] is easily the quickest way around central London, faster than bus, Tube or taxi. You can predict precisely how long every journey will take, regardless of traffic jams, Tube strikes or leaves on the line. It provides excellent exercise. It does not pollute the atmosphere. It does not clog up the streets.
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Journey
Cycling
Exercise
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I have neither the learning nor the experience to know whether the doomsayers are right about the human causes of climate change. But I am willing to acknowledge that people who know a lot more than I do may be right when they claim that it is the consequence of our own behaviour. I assume that this is why the BBC's coverage of the issue abandoned the pretence of impartiality long ago.
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Issues
Long Ago
People
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