Joanna Lumley Quotes
In Ethiopia... you might find a seven-year-old expected to take 15 goats out into the fields for the whole day with only a chapati to eat and his whistle. Why are we so afraid to give our children responsibilities like this?
Quotes to Explore
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
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I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things to wear, and we might collaborate on making a little piece. They're really lovely, and I think they've been quite inspired by me in turn.
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People work hard.
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One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
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I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
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My biggest asset is not cash - it's a large, growing, devout fanbase.
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Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.
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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
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I think maybe written films are better than real films. You can see them in your head and yet everything is exactly as you want it to be.
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I have no guitar technique.
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The exercises I wholly condemn are dicing and carding, especially if you play for any great sum of money, or spend any time in them, or use to come to meetings in dicing-houses, where cheaters meet and cozen young gentlemen out of all their money.
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I grew up in Brooklyn.
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I've always had an entourage. Even when I was a little kid, I had a lot of little children following around me.
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In Ethiopia... you might find a seven-year-old expected to take 15 goats out into the fields for the whole day with only a chapati to eat and his whistle. Why are we so afraid to give our children responsibilities like this?
