Joanna Lumley Quotes
I am mean as cats' meat about handbags: mine don't ever look chic. I always prefer bags that aren't made of leather.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.
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I did Jay Leno with Mike the Situation, and he just - he lives, like, ten minutes from me in Jersey. He's like, 'If you ever get a flat, call me. I'll come fix your tire.' That's how we do. That's neighborly, you know?
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God gave me the ability, so why not? Go out there and play for Him. Maximize the talent He gave you.
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I grew up doing a lot of traveling. My mom left home when she was 15 and traveled to 48 different countries and speaks six different languages. So I grew up with my eyes open. She raised me so that if my heart says something is wrong, I have to go help. What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong.
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For relatively modest amounts of sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere, you could easily cool Earth by 1% or more, if you want.
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I'm not sure that some governors just don't want to lay off people for the sake of laying off people and being able to say they did.
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When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health, you worry about getting rupture or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.
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These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.
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The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul erosion produced by high gambling - a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension - becomes unbearable and the senses awake and revolt from it.
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It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
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Safe is just another word for scared.
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Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. 'Where did the totality of reality come from?' 'Did time have a beginning?'
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I don't have a dark side at all. I just like violence.
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A piece of material has a life. You must never upset it if you want the material to speak.
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Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.
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I am mean as cats' meat about handbags: mine don't ever look chic. I always prefer bags that aren't made of leather.
