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Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.

The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.

My filing system is messy but orderly.

My day rotates around my family. I am very lucky.

I can't go to bed if I haven't done my diary. I always record them just as I've always recorded all my interviews and speeches.

Making mistakes is part of life. The only things I would feel ashamed of would be if I had said things I hadn't believed in order to get on. Some politicians do do that.

I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.

Someone comes every morning at nine o'clock to see if I am still alive. I do get lonely, yes, but I have the children who come and see me. I see all my children every week, and there are the...

Age does take it out of you, and I haven't the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast and sit in this chair, and I wake up and it is lunchtime. In the past, the idea of sleeping through...

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

Normally, people give up parliament because they want to do more business or spend more time with family. My wife said 'why don't you say you're giving up to devote more time to politics?'. And it is what I have...

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