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Jeremy Paxman


British
May 11, 1950
Journalist
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It's stupid to have a simple-minded view.


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The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly.


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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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The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.


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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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It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.
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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.
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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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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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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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