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I'd rather go by bus.
Boy, the things I do for England.
Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
Your greatest achievement is to love me.
Conservation must become before recreation.
I'm not very good at being a performing monkey.
All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
We would never comment on private correspondence.
You don't want to see me all the time. You get bored.
To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.
For me, Lord Mountbatten represented the grandfather I never had.
Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!
As long as I do not take myself too seriously, I should not be too badly off.
There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
It's always marvelous to have somebody who, you know, you feel understands and wants to encourage.
The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.
Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.
That's called a microphone. It's a big sausage that picks up everything you say - and you're starting early.
All my life, people have been telling me what to do. I'm tired of it. My private life has become an industry.
Extremism is no more the monopoly of Islam than it is the monopoly of other religions, including Christianity.
Congratulations to 'Countdown' - it was an evening I will never forget - and a special thank you to Molly Meldrum.
Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.
One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought.
The whole of nature cries out at our mistreatment of her. If the planet were a patient, we would have treated her long ago.
Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ.
Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.
As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.
There is an old show business saying which warns never to work with animals or children, but nobody prepared me for Molly Meldrum.
To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.
Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach.
I think I can safely say that, as adolescents, most people have excess energy to spare and need adventure, excitement, and a challenge.
We are not the technology. It should be our - you know, our slave, the technology. But it's rapidly becoming our master in many areas, I think.
I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.
It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.
If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away.
Any difficulties which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy.
We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.
Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.
A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.
All I'm saying is that there is a price to be paid at the sharp end.. environmentally and everywhere else.. for the food that is produced in a particular way.
You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.