James May Quotes

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James May

Profession : Journalist

Birth : January 16, 1963

The bicycle might just be the greatest of all inventions. It empowers the human machine, and with no input beyond perhaps a trendy isotonic health drink in a brightly coloured bottle at an inflated price.

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Someone once told me that I was 12 inside. The only thing 12-year-olds crave is more Lego. Lego is fun; it's therapeutic. It's a beautiful sensation when you click the pieces together.

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I was a car journalist when I started on 'Top Gear.' It was all about cars. And then it all spun out of all control, and we turned into figures of ridicule to keep the viewers happy. It's a fair deal, I suppose.

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I've never quite trusted water; I don't think it's entirely healthy.

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Nice girls at school whose fathers owned a Volvo were unapproachable and probably condemned to spinsterhood for all time, simply because no one had the courage to advance up the drive.

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Justice should not admit a public's thirst for pure revenge.

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I think women, especially, are bored of blokes being useless.

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I think the astute viewer can recognise I am the proper bloke, because I have a toolbox and can put things back together, and I can quote W. B. Yeats and Alfred Lord Tennyson.

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In 1988, before I'd written a word for a car magazine or stood in front of a camera, I was a subeditor on 'The Engineer.'

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Richard Hammond is a reasonably fit bloke who looks after himself. Me and Jeremy aren't.

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I'm not very ambitious, sorry... I don't get up and think, 'Today, I shall achieve greatness.' It's more, 'Today I might have Marmite on my toast.'

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'Top Gear''s popularity is a complete mystery to me. Maybe it's because it's still a car programme, but it's turned into a distorted world view from three men; a world view through the windscreen.

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I do worry about breaking things - things that don't belong to me.

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I'm not a big film buff; I like watching films, but I tend to forget them.

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I don't know what a gazillion is.

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Me, I'm a lesbian: I find women fascinating.

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When I get into a car - any car - I still find it amazing that I'm allowed to drive it away.

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I felt that needed to be addressed: the idea that anything a man tries to do properly or thoroughly is dismissed as either metrosexual or OCD. But why can't you be practical and artistic at the same time, which was considered perfectly normal in the Renaissance?

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I don't have any quarrel with the BBC.

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When we were kids, if somebody said, 'What did you watch last night?' you would have said, 'BBC Two,' but now they'll just say, 'My mobile.'

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