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"I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored."
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"I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I don't think anybody can say they're the best one because, from one week to the next, you can be on form or off form a little bit."

"The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable."

"Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward."

"I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free."

"I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?"

"We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world."

"To write well you must be willing to go naked into the world."

"It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me."
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"Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant."

"Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics."

"You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for."

"I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them."

"All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies."

"People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure."

"I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit."

"An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment."
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