Neil Oliver Quotes

#1. It is security that I crave and money provides security. What is that old line about money? "Some is good, more is better and too much is just right."

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#2. I find it so easy to read qualified commentators who are 180 degrees opposed to each other.

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#3. I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing the accompanying book.

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#4. I worked on local papers, before taking a job as a webmaster with a very well known telecommunications company in London, as I thought the internet was the future.

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#5. My wife has always supported me in my career, even when there were times when it was more sensible to get a job. It has been her confidence in me that has helped enormously.

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#6. I live in a perpetual present. I don't look back and I don't look forward. I just live from week to week.

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#7. I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling.

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#8. It took me a while to get established - success didn't happen overnight.

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#9. The little logo that sits at the top of the screen of any 'Bluetooth-enabled' hardware () is actually a monogram created from the two runes that represent Harald's initials

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#10. People looking at what I do from the outside would think it was a secure world I live in, but it isn't. Just because you had a series last year, doesn't mean you will have one next. But I am quite happy with that.

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#11. I trust to luck. I am planning to be a millionaire before I die but I don't have a plan as to how that will happen.

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#12. I'm wary of the new contactless ways of paying. The idea of paying with your phone is a little worrying: I have lost more than one over the years.

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#13. My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.

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#14. I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.

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#15. Television came looking for me; it was never a plan to become a presenter.

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