QUOTES by James May
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I'm on television far too much. I'm not sure why. I've watched myself on TV from time to time. It's painful.
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Bicycles should not be insured or registered, and cycling proficiency should not be subject to a test. That's just weak-kneed nonsense from people who believe the world can be cured with paperwork.
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I hope we're not barred from Argentina - I'd quite like to go back for another ham and cheese sandwich.
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It's actually very difficult to come up with a new name for something that hasn't already been bagged by someone else, unless you call your new show 'Shubbley-Doobley-Woobley' or something like that!
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I have never stormed off over money or contracts. I am paid quite well by 'Top Gear.' I am pretty happy, and I have never seen Richard Hammond storm off, either.
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I don't have a worry about women because I keep reading that not only are they better at school, they are now better at parking, better at navigating... we know that women are good at everything.
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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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Our 'Top Gear' characters are based on our own characters, if exaggerated and cartoonified. We try not to be completely different to who we are, because you couldn't carry it off in the long run.
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I suppose I could do 'The Reassembler' at 80. But it would be a terrible cliche.
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I am actually a perfectly capable modern man who can cook, clean, wash, and find my way to places, but nobody believes it.
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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 know there have been some catastrophically unpopular programmes on television over the years. Has it ever got to the point where the only person still interested in what's happening is the person who's on the telly?
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I always said it was a privilege to end up on the television. It wasn't my ambition; I fell into editing magazines and writing about cars, and then I ended up on the telly.
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The greatest luxury now in being reasonably well-off - overlooking the Ferrari and the aeroplane - is that I can always go for a curry without worrying if I can afford it.
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We've always liked the word 'chump', and it's quite nearly our initials - Clarkson, Hammond, and May Productions.
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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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I can't make a house homely. My house just looks like a garage or a shed. I'm not untidy, but it just looks so uninviting.
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I woke up one morning and realised that one of the problems with being a middle-aged man - of being a man in general - is the tyranny of fashion.
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There's a great deal of poetry in working out how things work, cutting bits of metal, trying to mend stuff.
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Men think that not being able to wire a plug somehow makes them more creative or intellectual. It just makes them morons.
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There's this perception that I've got this huge collection of old cars. I don't.
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I find the history of toys very interesting on an academic level - they're very much products of their time, just like paintings and furniture tell us about their time.
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Jeremy Clarkson wants to become a farmer - he's bought a field - Hammond wants to open a supermarket, and I'd like to spend my days owning a shoe shop.
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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 got into it just thinking, 'Oh, television, maybe I'll have a go at that.' I could've never imagined that it would get to this.
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I'd quite like to film in Central Park. I think we have asked, but we're not allowed to.
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Despite some of the stories that have gone around, I've never had a big, flouncey strop about how much I'm paid. Considering I have a pretty interesting life out of making telly, I'm really paid quite well for it. So I'm not complaining.
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I think any carmaker that had a brain and was looking very long-term would think about 'Personalised Transport Solutions' - which may not be a car.
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