Joanna Lumley Quotes
I cut the labels out of my clothes because they scratch. Clothes are just little workhorses, aren't they?
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either as artists or songwriters or producers.
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My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.
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Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix.
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If a little black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, or some far-reaching region sees something that I do and aspires to do it one day with the knowledge that she can achieve it, then hey, my work is done.
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I might have faults but I'm not a big head.
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I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.
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I started boxing because of my brother. And then I came to admire the all-time greats, like Roberto Duran and Muhammad Ali. I'd say I admired Ali more than any fighter in my life.
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
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Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.
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I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it has happened will anything survive.
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Today we are sacks of shit bundled into flying tubes with a security warning secreted inside every orifice.
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Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.
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The life we’ve been leading couldn’t last forever. It’s a wonder it lasted as long as it did.
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...new nuclear plants are simply unfinanceable in the private capital market, and the technology will continue to die of an incurable attack of market forces-all the faster in competitive markets. This is true not just in the U.S., where the last order was in 1978 and all orders since 1973 were cancelled, but globally.
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Ammu explained to Estha and Rahel that people always loved best what they Identified most with.
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I believe your personality is formed at a very early age. Fame can magnify that personality, for good or bad, but it can't change it. So when people say to me, 'Don't change,' I'm thinking, To what? To who? Who else would I be?
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Pomegranate molasses is ubiquitous in Arabic cooking: it's sweet, sour and adds depth.
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Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.
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Just simple things - I like black and white, monochrome; I like suits.
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Not for a second did I think it was going to turn out this way. The bottom line is an innocent athlete was suspended from competition. You could say it's a victory for USADA (U.S. Anti Doping Agency), but I think it's better to say it's a tragedy for all athletes. I'm innocent.
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I cut the labels out of my clothes because they scratch. Clothes are just little workhorses, aren't they?
