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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Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.
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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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In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in 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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'Use Somebody' I posted - it was the end of 2009, around Christmas. That was my first video.
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Greet everyone you meet with a warm smile. No matter how busy you are, don't rush encounters with coworkers, family, and friends. Speak softly. Listen attentively. Act as if every conversation you have is the most important thing on your mind today. Look your children and your partner in the eyes when they talk to you. Stroke the cat, caress the dog. Lavish love on every living being you meet. See how different you feel at the end of the day.
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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.
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I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada.
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I cut the labels out of my clothes because they scratch. Clothes are just little workhorses, aren't they?
