Jeremy Vine
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I’d stop my teenage self worrying about how my life was going to pan out.
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I’d take back some dumb shit I said when I had no audience and found that being shocking made people laugh.
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John Simpson
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I would have behaved better to my first wife, and the girl I lived with afterwards. I was always away.
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I’d be born a man and have a wife to run the house.
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I would have thought more about exercise and a healthy lifestyle in my 20s, 30s and 40s.
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Anxiety, mostly, once you have kids.
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