Joanna Lumley Quotes

Greece has got something like 1,400 islands. There is so much of Greece you can't know even if you're Greek. It's sprinkled out all around the edge of the Aegean, all over the place. It's already a secret place wherever you go, even if it's somewhere huge like Athens or Corinth. The place enchanted me.

Joanna Lumley

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  Olivia Culpo
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• Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Nature
  • Perfect
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• I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Years
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• Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
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• Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.

  

  Dan Stevens
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• Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Down
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  • Oh

• My father was my trainer, my teacher. He was closer to my sister in the sense that she adored him and he adored her. He was more like my pal. Because of the 13-year gap, I think by the time I came along, it wasn't a big deal. I wasn't spoilt or cherished, I was just put to work.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
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• I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Long
  • School

• I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.' People aren't inherently sympathetic.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Me
  • Kind

• Privatization is more efficient and effective in some cases, but not in intelligence.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • More
  • Intelligence
  • Some

• In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Long
  • Way
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• May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
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  • Young

• The most important images for human beings are simply words, which are abstract symbols. ...Evolution has greatly enlarged the front lobes of the human brain, which govern the sense of the past and the future; and... they are probably the seat of our other images.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Important
  • Future
  • Past

• The images play out for us events which are not present in our senses, and... create the future-a future that... may never come to exist in that form.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • May
  • Future
  • Present

• The obsessive rules of etiquette struck Emily as mean-spirited, like the old trick of tying someone’s shoelaces under the table. It was only fun if you liked watching people fall down.

  

  M. K. Hobson
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• Well it is. It is a religion with me. It's a way of life. A religion is a way of life, isn't it?

  

  Jack LaLanne
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• The land of scholars and the nurse of arms.

  

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• ...on youth unemployment - governments should ensure that one out of three of jobs in the public sector are opened up to the youth and that at least one person in every household should have access to a job.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
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• Music is something that I have to do on a regular basis. It really is my life and I absolutely love it. It's a part of my day-to-day. So if I had to choose, it would be music. But I love acting too.

  

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  • Life
  • Music

• I get criticized for anything I do.

  

  Jose Canseco

• I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.

  

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  • Children
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  • Miracles

• Somehow, I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. The special secret it seems to me is summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Courage, Confidence and Constancy. And the greatest of all is Confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Believe
  • True
  • Confidence

• At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people; nurture the belief that they can do things.

  

  George Papandreou
  • People
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• Greece has got something like 1,400 islands. There is so much of Greece you can't know even if you're Greek. It's sprinkled out all around the edge of the Aegean, all over the place. It's already a secret place wherever you go, even if it's somewhere huge like Athens or Corinth. The place enchanted me.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Greek