Joanna Lumley Quotes

Way back in the 1970s, I was eating a steak, and I looked down, and for the first time it suddenly looked like flesh to me - like a dead creature. In a flash, I realized that every time I ate any kind of meat, something had been killed for me, and I stopped eating all animals, not just cows and pigs but chickens and fish.

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• I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Me
  • Adversity

• The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • American
  • Rest

• I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Give
  • Finished

• I had no desire to crash a man's world.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • World
  • Man
  • Desire

• I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • God
  • Real
  • Movie

• Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Light

• Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

  

  Mae West
  • Rain
  • Boyfriend
  • Save

• Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Responsibility
  • Abuse
  • Top

• I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Happy

• There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Parent
  • Coffee

• I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Job
  • First
  • Old

• One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • America
  • Want

• Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Think
  • Game

• In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.

  

  Vince Cable
  • World
  • Job
  • Class

• I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • You
  • Stop
  • Working

• Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Children
  • Words
  • Poetry

• The reason why I moved from Young Thug to Jeffery was because I felt like I did a wrong turn.

  

  Young Thug
  • Why
  • Reason
  • Young

• Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Conflict
  • The Right Thing

• After we finished 'Toy Story 2,' we talked about going right into making 'Toy Story 3,' because we had an idea that we thought had some promise. But there were a bunch of boring contractual problems going on between Disney and Pixar at the time that kept us from making the movie.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Promise

• I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time.

  

  Lesley Garrett
  • Time
  • House

• I must say, I feel the reception of my work is none of my business.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Business
  • I Feel
  • Reception

• Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Long
  • Me
  • Play

• I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile.

  

  Christina Hoff Sommers
  • People
  • Children
  • Help

• Way back in the 1970s, I was eating a steak, and I looked down, and for the first time it suddenly looked like flesh to me - like a dead creature. In a flash, I realized that every time I ate any kind of meat, something had been killed for me, and I stopped eating all animals, not just cows and pigs but chickens and fish.

  

  Joanna Lumley
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