John Humphrys quotes
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“It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago. They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.”
-- John HumphrysSource : "I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language" by John Humphrys, www.dailymail.co.uk. September 24, 2007.
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“The BBC has tended over the years to be broadly liberal as opposed to broadly conservative for all sorts of perfectly understandable reasons. The sort of people we've recruited - the best and the brightest - tended to come from universities and backgrounds where they're more likely to hold broadly liberal views than conservative.”
-- John HumphrysSource : "John Humphrys: pro-Europe BBC shied away from immigration debate" by Josh Halliday, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2014.
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“It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen.”
-- John HumphrysSource : 2000 The Devil's Advocate.
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“It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven.”
-- John HumphrysSource : 2004 In the Sunday Times, 8 Feb.
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“The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is worse. It is not only bad, it is damaging, meretricious, seedy and cynical.”
-- John HumphrysSource : "Savaging of 'seedy and cynical' TV" by Matt Wells, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2004.
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“If the semicolon is one of the neglected children in the family of punctuation marks these days, told to stay in its room and entertain itself, because mummy and daddy are busy, the apostrophe is the abused victim.”
-- John HumphrysSource : "The end of the line?" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2008.
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“Think about how much skateboarding opens your eyes to see the world differently.”
-- John Humphrys
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Source : Song: My Rap World, Album: Tears of a Clown, 1999
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“Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.”
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“I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.”
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
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“Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.”
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“To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.”
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