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I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts. — Zubin Mehta

It's an absolute disgrace that there isn't a books programme on the BBC. — Mariella Frostrup

The BBC will always be attacked by whoever is in government. It is that George Bush thing of 'If you're not with us you are against us.' — Graham Norton

Rule 1: The Doctor lies. — Steven Moffat

The sun doesn't live in England; it comes here on holiday when we're all at work. — Benny Bellamacina

Compared with the BBC's studied neutrality, Fox comes across as a kind of Gong Show of propaganda. — Russ Baker

If you're looking to find a career that makes a difference - and work you really love - this book will show you how. — Paul Allen

Graham Norton makes me laugh. I love him. I'm not kidding. I watch him on BBC America every week. He's so fast. — Sarah Jessica Parker

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland. — Gyorgy Ligeti

I'd love to play a villain in BBC drama 'Sherlock' - some sort of evil, slinky blonde would be right up my street. — Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music. — Keith Richards

Never knowingly be serious. Rule 27. — Steven Moffat

There is still an element of the BBC that feels it is somehow wrong, or it will be open to criticism, if it makes more money. — Armando Iannucci

I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown. — Sarah Hall

It would be extraordinary if the BBC were to make me the first black 'Doctor Who;' it would be extraordinary. — David Harewood

I never thought I was very good at developing material. I grew up at the BBC where they sent you scripts. — Stephen Frears

Yesterday people were going past my window in t shirts and dresses. But that's the men at the BBC for you. — Eddie Mair

One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama. — David Oyelowo

In 2010, the BBC spent nearly Â£230,000 on tea, but only Â£2000 on biscuits. — John Lloyd

It is effectively BBC policy to ignore climate change sceptics. — Peter Sissons

I have been listening to sport and watching sport on the BBC since I was a tiny boy. — Allan McNish

I have been to Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street but cannot get on the BBC. I am very disappointed because it boils down to snobbery. — Phil Taylor

I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening at the right times. — Aung San Suu Kyi

I'd like to do a kind of 'Sunday Night At The Palladium'-style variety show on the BBC. — Anton Du Beke

Steampunk is ... the love child of Hot Topic and a BBC costume drama — Gail Carriger

You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408. — Steven Moffat

The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody. — Andrew Davies

The establishment is a dirty, dangerous beast, and the BBC is a mouthpiece for that. — Ken Stott

this morning, listening to the BBC news, I learned that half of all prisoners in the UK have the reading age of an eleven-year-old, or below. This — Neil Gaiman

The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market. — Jonathan Dimbleby

I refuse to have a life partner who spends his days pretending to be on a BBC show. — Lisa Lutz

The BBC is a victim of its own independence. — Graham Norton

I'd like to thank the BBC for allowing me to work here. And I'd like to thank the wife and kids for making it necessary. — Les Dawson

I honestly don't think you're taken seriously until you're 30. Any ideas I've ever taken to the BBC, they've told me I wasn't ready for it. — Rhys Thomas

Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors. — Idris Elba

I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in 'Just William,' which is due to transmit on BBC One at Christmas. — Harry Melling

People in the BBC are always dying to get out of their open-plan offices. — Andrew Davies

People should cool down a little bit and not look at the people in the other party as enemies. — Joe Lieberman

I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two. — Jonathan Dimbleby

Shakespeare, adrenal glands, professional bowling, and the bizarre reproductive patterns of wasps (along with teams of BBC cameraman to document them( — N.D. Wilson

When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened. — Aung San Suu Kyi

My first paid role was my first job out of drama school, which was 'Just William.' It was a BBC TV show. I played Ethel. — Lily James

I like BBC news; I like some London news because you can get it earlier then anywhere else. I like Charlie Rose a lot. — Brian Grazer

I hate when you play therapist. Especially with your accent. It makes everything you say sound so BBC. — Augusten Burroughs

The BBC did a survey of the top 50 things to do before we die. Not while we're still alive, before we die. — Bill Bailey

Kaneria has competed in more than 50 Test series [sic] for Pakistan during his career. — BBC

CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad. — Roger Ailes

Indeed, it occasionally seems as if the book has attempted to inoculate itself against the prospect of actually being read. — Roger Moorhouse

The BBC can be infuriating at times but I love it with a passion. — John Sweeney

Web traffic figures for the BBC news website: — Alain De Botton

The BBC, during its 24 hours on the air, plays a very wide range of stuff. And it's not commercial. — Robin Trower

That's the first time I've seen sex between two men on the BBC. — Eamon Dunphy

I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut. — Alexei Sayle

My fantasy is, if I wasn't on 'Dexter,' I would move my family to London and work for the BBC on 'Doctor Who.' — Manny Coto

The BBC is very good at period drama - world-famous for getting the details right. — Lynne Reid Banks

I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly. — Jonathan Dimbleby

The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me. — Jonathan Dimbleby

I'm quite grateful to the BBC. They helped me back onto the touring circuit. — Louise Jameson

I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day ... I admit I encourage him in that also. — Jane Austen

The prospect of the UK without a BBC funded by the licence fee is anywhere between improbable and impossible. — Tessa Jowell

The BBC is another part of the destruction of Great Britain. — Norman Tebbit

Greg Dyke is on record as saying that once the BBC was attacked, it was their job to defend themselves. But that is not their job. — Alastair Campbell

It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic. — John Leeson

When even the scrupulously detached BBC is exhorting us to talk to God, you know something is going on. — Nick Hornby

The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio. — Douglas Kennedy

I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically. — Alexei Sayle

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough

I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Before I joined the BBC I was, like most of the intelligentsia, prejudiced not only against that institution but against broadcasting in general. — Louis MacNeice

Never run when you're scared. Rule 7. — Steven Moffat

Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us. — Chris Hardwick

Oh yes, it's definitely been jumped on, that egg. — Tony McCabe

I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.' — Russell Brand

I don't really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond. — Will Estes

The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman. — Gavyn Davies

The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish. — Jonathan Dimbleby

I have not watched WAGs World, I have not watched the BBC's Upstairs, Downstairs, either. It would be Downton Abbey, I think. — Theresa May

I sat on the floor and watched TV
Thanking Christ for the BBC
A stupid fucking place to be
Down Rain Street — Shane MacGowan

A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds. — Clive James

Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity. — Stephen Fry

There could be between 10,000 and 13,000 victims of slavery in the UK, higher than previous figures, analysis for the Home Office suggests. — BBC Worldwide