Joanna Lumley Quotes

There was one 'crime' during the whole time I was at school, when a fountain pen went missing. Stealing just didn't happen. I was taught not to shoplift, not to steal, not to behave badly. We weren't even allowed to drop litter.

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• I didn't know much about golf growing up.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Golf

• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Sexuality
  • Seduction

• A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Live
  • Human
  • Honor

• Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Child
  • Blessed

• The less you have, the more you enjoy.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • More

• As we began working toward the finale of 'Lost,' I knew there was no possible ending that was going to be universally loved, and I accepted that. We ended the story the way we wanted it to end, and we stand by it. On my Twitter feed, I still get ten to fifteen positive comments for every negative one.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Lost
  • Positive
  • End

• When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Moment
  • Eating
  • Breathing

• You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • You
  • Know
  • Boy

• Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Faith
  • Far
  • Candidates

• If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.

  

  Pamela Sue Martin
  • Want
  • Me
  • Truck

• San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • High
  • Health
  • Challenges

• 'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Being
  • Outsiders
  • Vine

• Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Night

• If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • People
  • Great
  • Pretty

• War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • War
  • Unfolding

• Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.

  

  Zach Woodlee
  • Will
  • I Can
  • Twitter

• To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Politicians
  • Themselves

• In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Next
  • Landscape
  • Extinction

• People ask me all the time, 'What keeps you up at night?' And I say, 'Spicy Mexican food, weapons of mass destruction, and cyber attacks.'

  

  Dutch Ruppersberger
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I've played all these extreme guys, but playing an everyman type has its own challenges.

  

  Andrew Scott

• A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Value
  • Ideas
  • Belief

• Everybody in my family cooks, so growing up and being around it... if I was going to spend time with everybody, it was helping them in the kitchen.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• There was one 'crime' during the whole time I was at school, when a fountain pen went missing. Stealing just didn't happen. I was taught not to shoplift, not to steal, not to behave badly. We weren't even allowed to drop litter.

  

  Joanna Lumley
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