Jeremy Paxman Quotes

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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…
• I got fed up of listening to bollocks
• Has there ever been a visitor to Ludlow who hasn't wished they lived there?
• 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.
• 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…
• 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…
• I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?
• The promise of Western capitalism of ever rising rates of pay has turned out to be the cheque that bounced
• [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,…
• At last someone takes me seriously.
• The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly.
• 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…
• 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…
• It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.
• I find it odd that people take me seriously.
• 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…
• It's stupid to have a simple-minded view.
• I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.
• 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…
• I hate the word 'sneering', I can't help the way my face looks.

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