I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.
It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
In the end the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning rather than protesting that like some poor relation they don't cost much to be housed.
Anybody who really knows about the TV business knows that it would be impossible to just march in one day and say to your colleagues and bosses 'Oh yes I'm hosting my own show.'
There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up that you have no concrete proof of.
The business is a very tricky obstacle course and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working you're not interesting.
Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.
I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least I'm the least - I'm the most trusting I absolutely make a habit of believing anything that anybody tells me about themselves. I've never had any reason in the world to think that anyone has wanted to harm me or lie to me. I believe whatever is being sold most of the time.
Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1 200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.
Half the time men think they are talking business they are wasting time.