Joanna Lumley Quotes
I was involved with the landmines before the Princess of Wales, and nobody gave a damn about people losing their limbs. It only became a success when she came along.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.
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I think the reality is that there's a role for everybody to play in the work of social justice and that we have to organize everybody. That means that Silicon Valley has to be organized, the fashion industry has to be organized, the formerly incarcerated have to be organized, the teachers.
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I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?
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A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
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I was involved with the landmines before the Princess of Wales, and nobody gave a damn about people losing their limbs. It only became a success when she came along.
