Joanna Lumley Quotes

I cut the labels out of my clothes because they scratch. Clothes are just little workhorses, aren't they?

Joanna Lumley

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• What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Society
  • Community
  • Financial

• 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.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Friends
  • Almost
  • Seem

• 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.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Guy

• If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Me
  • Party
  • Dying

• 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.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Long
  • Family
  • Single

• One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • Want
  • English

• Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Always
  • Solo
  • Mix

• Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • You
  • Proud
  • First

• 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.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Work
  • Done
  • She

• I might have faults but I'm not a big head.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Head
  • Big
  • Big Head

• I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Proud
  • Being

• I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.'

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Think
  • Know
  • Self

• 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.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Life
  • Time
  • Brother

• In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • Life
  • See

• War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Men
  • Country
  • War

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Free
  • Reality

• 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.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Live
  • Literature

• Today we are sacks of shit bundled into flying tubes with a security warning secreted inside every orifice.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Today
  • Flying

• Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to aim at what people regard as beautiful or pleasant order, but it is also the indispensable condition for just keeping that population alive which exists already in the world. I regard the preservation of what is known as the capitalist system, of the system of free markets and the private ownership of the means of production, as an essential condition of the very survival of mankind.

  

  Friedrich August von Hayek
  • Beautiful
  • Design
  • Survival

• We're both strong, and there's something that all Southern women have in common - the survivor instinct.

  

  Jaime Pressly
  • Women
  • Strong

• I totally believe in magic. Because my life, I think, has been very magic, and magical things have come true for me time after time after time.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Magic
  • Believe In
  • Time After Time

• Real love is not based on attachment, but on altruism. In this case, your compassion will remain as a humane response to suffering as long as beings continue to suffer.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Long
  • Real
  • Suffering

• I cut the labels out of my clothes because they scratch. Clothes are just little workhorses, aren't they?

  

  Joanna Lumley