Joanna Lumley Quotes
We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same.
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I always have issues with trust.
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I do things right. No shortcuts.
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How I see my career is very much as an entrepreneur in the field of philanthropy.
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I always put my boxing first.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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A monopoly is like running on firm ground. Nothing compels you to move, but if you do, you move forward. The faster you run, the more scenery you see - so you have some incentive to run fast.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.
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I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.
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When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can.
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If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined.
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The PGA Championship, last of the majors each year, might well be accustomed to having fun poked at it by the print press for being mired in August, but this isn't fair.
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The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman.
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I started attending community college when I was 14 or 15, just doing general education stuff like history and mathematics. Then I went on to California State University Long Beach to pursue a degree in journalism. And then I ended up dropping out to found Oculus.
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Once upon a time all the men of mind and genius in the world became of one belief-that is to say, of no belief. But it wearied them to think that within a few years after their death many cults and systems and prognostications would be ascribed to them which they had never meditated nor intended. So they said to one another:
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Was ever poet so trusted before?
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Self-love seems so often unrequited.
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Those who saw him hushed. On Church Street. Liberty. Cortlandt. West Street. Fulton. Vesey. It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
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By one estimate, 90% of international transactions were accounted for by trade before 1970, and only 10% by capital flows. Today, despite a vast increase in global trade, that ratio has been reversed, with 90% of transactions accounted for by financial flows not directly related to trade in goods and services.
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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
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You don't reward reaction; you reward results.
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The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.
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We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same.
