Quotes by Sandi Toksvig - Page 2

The fact is, there is not now, nor has there ever been in the whole of history, a single country in the world where women have equality with men.
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Equality
History Men Women
History Women Men
Nor
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I love 'Teach Yourself' books. I bought an old weaving loom and had no time for classes, but one 'Teach Yourself' later, and my bobbin is flying.
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Flying
Weaving
Love Time Yourself
Classes
Loom
No Time
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Cheryl Cole is one of the few incredibly famous people who still seems to say what they think. I really like that; plus, I do fancy her quite a bit.
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Plus
Famous People Who
Famous People
Quite A Bit
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You want a kitchen put in, I'm your girl. I'm very handy, and I love a practical challenge. I fit all the stereotypes of the lesbian with power tools.
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Handy
Tools
Lesbian
Practical
Stereotypes
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Because of my fighting for LGBT rights, I have seen the possibility of change. And that gives me heart to believe that it is possible to effect change.
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Possibility
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My ambition is to stop showing off. I'd love to be a tweedy academic. I'd be happy living in a croft. I like making jam. So why am I a semi-public figure?
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Academic
Be Happy
Showing
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The secret to my success is to work seven days a week. It's as disappointing an answer as the one about how to lose weight. Eat less. Sleep less. Very boring.
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Disappointing
Success Is
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No matter how far I travel from Denmark, I still miss the food, so ScandiKitchen in Great Titchfield Street in central London is an essential part of my life.
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Denmark
Life Food Great
Life Great Food
Essential Part
How Far
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I am always slightly mystified by the whole 'Snow White' story. What are the chances of coming across that many diminutive men living in one house in the woods?
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House
Snow
Snow White
White
Woods
Across
Chances
Coming
Slightly
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I'm political in the sense that there's much to be done, but I'm apolitical in the sense that I don't think there's a party that represents anything I believe in.
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Apolitical
Party
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Noel Fielding is one of the nicest guys in show business. The first time I met him, I felt like I had met a rather wayward cousin whose take on the world made me laugh.
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Cousin
Show Business
Time Business World
Nicest
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My earliest memory is my parents forgetting my fourth birthday. My dad looked up from reading the paper and went, 'Oh my God!' So we went out, and I chose a red scooter.
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Birthday
Fourth
Paper
Red
Chose
Earliest
Forgetting
Looked
Memory
Oh My God
Scooter
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English is full of Scandinavian words. Margate, Ramsgate, Billingsgate, any town with a 'gate' on it takes their suffix from the Danish word 'gade' which simply means 'street.'
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Danish
Gate
Scandinavian
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There was a really long period of time when, if the newspapers ever referred to me, even if I was talking about, I don't know, cake making, they would put 'lesbian Sandi Toksvig.'
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Cake
Newspapers
Time Me Long
Lesbian
Long Period
Referred
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I would not be able to keep going at the pace that I do if I had continued at the weight that I was. I feel so much better; I eat better. I sleep better. I actually enjoy exercise.
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Exercise
Pace
Weight
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I've downloaded the BBC's 'Cranford' with Judi Dench because I like a bit of bonnet acting, and I can turn it on and off without worrying about whether I can follow what's happening.
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Bbc
Dench
Downloaded
Judi Dench
On And Off
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I know we don't all follow in the family footsteps, but you are, I suppose, more likely to consider becoming a butcher if you have spent your childhood watching a parent debone a pig.
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Footsteps
Butcher
Pig
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People say, 'When did you decide you were gay?' and you think, 'When did you decide you were heterosexual?' It's not a decision: it's something you gradually begin to realise about yourself.
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Gradually
Heterosexual
Realise
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I'm trying to get my kids - in particular, my step-daughter Mary, who's 12 - to recommend music to me. You reach a certain age and realise you haven't kept up, but I don't want to fall behind.
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Mary
Age Music Me
Certain Age
Realise
Recommend
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I'm ashamed to say, I've done hideous pen portraits of people I don't like in my novels. And they'll say, 'Oh, that person was hideous,' and I'm nodding, and I'm thinking, 'It's you, you fool!'
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Ashamed
Fool
Hideous
Portraits
Pen
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One of my life's watchwords is 'hyggelig.' It's an untranslatable Danish term for getting together with friends and family and sitting around in a cosy atmosphere with nice food and wine and candles.
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Atmosphere
Danish
Sitting
Term
Wine
Life Family Food
Candles
Friends And Family
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I can't live without Radio 4. It's worth the entire licence fee. I'm an obsessive listener; I get up, and Radio 4 goes on, but it goes off when 'Thought for the Day' starts, as that's a step too far.
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Obsessive
Fee
For The Day
Licence
Listener
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I haven't got the patience for small talk, although I once saw a woman standing on her own in the corner, and I realised it was Monica Lewinsky, and I had the nicest evening with her - she was charming.
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Charming
Evening
Monica
Realised
Small Talk
Standing
Although
Corner
Nicest
Saw
Lewinsky
Monica Lewinsky
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I don't know a lot about mountaineering. I once went walking in the Lake District with the legendary climber Chris Bonington and had to have emergency physio afterwards to regain sensation in my thighs.
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Legendary
Mountaineering
Thighs
Afterwards
Chris
Climber
District
Emergency
Lake
Sensation
Regain
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At my worst, I was a size 22, and at that size, you can't go down the high street and buy yourself things that make you feel good. Your shopping options are limited in a way they aren't when you are a size 12.
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Feel Good
Shopping
Good Yourself Your
Good Feel Good Yourself
Options
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I worry that every time I lay down my credit card of choice, it says something about me. About my social standing or how I see myself. The very colour of your card is an indication of where you stand in the wealth stakes.
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Colour
Credit Card
Indication
Stakes
Time Myself Me
Time Myself Your
Card
Lay
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I don't care if you're from the right or left of politics - there are core objectives we can all agree on: equal pay, equal representation on the media, equal representation at board level, politics, an end to domestic violence.
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Equal Pay
Objectives
Representation
Board
Domestic
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Do you know there were two pilots made for 'Have I Got News For You' before the series started two decades ago: one hosted by Angus Deayton and one hosted by me. But I was told that they couldn't have a woman in charge of the news.
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Decades
Do You Know
Pilots
Charge
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What I think is if the world is in some difficulty - about climate change, about economics - then we had better make sure that 100 per cent of every brain available on the planet is working at full pelt to try to sort these things out.
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Climate Change
Difficulty
Cent
Per
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The other day, I was taking part in an audience Q&A when I was roundly scolded by a woman for 'allowing the BBC to ruin the English language.' Naturally I felt terrible, as I had no idea either that it was happening or that I was responsible.
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Allowing
English Language
No Idea
Scolded
Bbc
Ruin
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Endless books claim that the brains of men and women are wired differently. They have titles such as 'Why Men Don't Iron' and set out to convince us that women are somehow biologically suited to getting the creases out of clothes while men peruse maps.
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Convince
Endless
Iron
Maps
Men And Women
Titles
Men Women Why
Biologically
Brains
Claim
Suited
Wired
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I was once very unpleasantly groped while I was broadcasting by a famous individual who shall remain nameless. When I told the staff afterwards what had happened, everybody thought it was amusing. There was a shrugged shoulder approach to the whole thing.
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Amusing
Broadcasting
Staff
Afterwards
Shoulder
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I've met Theresa May, and I think she's a good person. I'm not someone who goes, 'Ooooh, boooo, the Tories,' or 'Ooooh, boo' anyone, actually. You sit down and have a sensible conversation, and she is really, really capable of having a sensible conversation.
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Good Person
Sensible
Theresa
Boo
Tories
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I went to a physiotherapist, and she said something to me no one has ever said: 'Sandi, you have plantar fasciitis, because you're fat.' I left and sat in my car shaking. She'd told me the truth, which no one else had. It was painful, but I needed to hear it.
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Car
Truth
Left
Needed
Painful
Said
Sat
Shaking
Fat
Ever
Else
Hear
She
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Being attracted to my own sex was as much part of who I was as being short or blonde or drawn to the library, but I was made to grow up feeling 'other.' Most books, films - even advertisements - didn't reflect how I felt, and I often watched the world from the outside.
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Blonde
Library
Advertisement
Attracted
Drawn
Reflect
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I've had a surprising number of near-death experiences: I was nearly blown up by a landmine in Sudan; I was stranded on the Zambezi river at night; I was bucked off a rodeo horse in Arizona and had to be airlifted to hospital; and, worst of all, I once ate a Pot Noodle.
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Arizona
Horse
Night
Pot
Rodeo
Stranded
Sudan
Surprising
Worst
Once
Had
Ate
Blown
Nearly
Experiences
Number
Off
Hospital
Noodle
River
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Although I'm sure she's completely charming and delightful, I'm not sure if Kate Middleton might be the best role model. This is a person who has got where she is by marriage, a person whose weight, clothing, hair we worry about - we don't worry about what she's thinking.
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Charming
Delightful
Clothing
Role Model
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With my daughters, it didn't matter how much it was not my thing, we went through two truly horrible pink phases. I bought an awful lot of Barbie rubbish, and it was a great day when I was allowed to send Barbie's house to the skip. That was one of the best days of my life.
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Barbie
Great Day
Horrible
Phases
Rubbish
Skip
Life Best Great
Awful Lot
Pink
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Too often, there are complaints in the British papers about the BBC. It's too left wing, too right wing, too pro-Brexit, too anti, and so on. It's only when you go abroad and try to find out what is going on in the world that everyone falls with gratitude before the BBC News.
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British
Complaints
Gratitude
News
Papers
Abroad
Anti
Bbc
Falls
Wing
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The truth is I don't really like the world of plastic money: the great chip-and-pin double act of modern payment. I prefer cash. I don't like the idea of some distant clerk nodding each time I make a card purchase and quietly adding to my 'consumer profile.' I'm anti all cards.
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Cash
Payment
Plastic
Profile
Time Truth Money
Adding
Anti
Card
Clerk
Consumer
Distant
Double
Each Time
Truth Time Money
Purchase
Quietly
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When my three children were little, I took them to Rome. On our way to our destination, we went to see the Colosseum and returned to the car to find everything had been stolen. Trying to buy everything for a week, including clothing for three small, very tired children, was a low point in my life.
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Destination
Rome
Stolen
Clothing
Low Point
Returned
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I have to say, I have to tell you that my kids had a most marvelous time having two moms. When my daughter was at university, she got flu. And both mums rushed to be with her. And we were both looking after her and making soup and tidying up. And one of her friends came in and went, 'Two mums? Not fair.'
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Daughter
Friends
Flu
Marvelous
Not Fair
Soup
Two
University
Looking
After
Both
Came
Fair
Having
Her
Making
Moms
Rushed
She
Tell
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I'm 57 years old, and I host a quiz show every single day. I got asked in a recent interview, did I feel that hosting a quiz show helps keep my brain sharp? And I asked - would you ask Stephen Fry that question, who is exactly the same age as me? Somehow, I'm managing to stand up and stay cogent despite my incredible age.
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Brain
Despite
Host
Quiz
Single
Ask
Stand
Age Me Day
Stay
Every Single Day
Exactly The Same
Fry
Helps
Hosting
Incredible
Interview
Managing
Question
Recent
Same Age
Sharp
Single Day
Somehow
Stand Up
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There are panel shows that struggle to get women on, and that's because the women feel marginalised and stupid and in the edit are often seen just laughing at the boys and not saying anything at all even though I know for a fact in the recording they were clever. I'm not shy at speaking up, but even I, on those shows, am silenced.
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Clever
Edit
Marginalised
Panel
Silenced
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I think kids are in your temporary care, and that they probably arrive with pretty much the personalities they're going to have. I grew up in a perfectly traditional family and turned out how I did. I'm not sure there's much that the family can do except lots of love and lots of care and lots of chances for them to develop the best they can.
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Traditional Family
Love Best Family
Arrive
Chances
Perfectly
Personalities
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When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. "This is often considered to be man's first attempt at a calendar" she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. 'My question to you is this - what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman's first attempt at a calendar. It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women's contributions?
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Women
Feminist
Firsts
Past
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