Joanna Lumley Quotes
I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
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The United Nations has a proud record of helping millions of people in mine-affected countries.
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Style is something very individual, very personal, and in their own unique way, I believe everyone is stylish.
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I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.
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Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.
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I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.
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The monastic man is an artist.The philosopher Appoints man’s place in music, say, today. But the priest desires. The philosopher desires.And not to have is the beginning of desire. To have what is not is its ancient cycle.
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Child rearing is an art, and what makes art art is that it is doing several things at once.
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I make music to make you sick of fake music - hate music like devil worshippin' Satan music. So say your prayers - your Hail Mary's and Jesuses. Take two sticks, tape 'em together and make a crucifix.
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The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don't know why something's happening to you and you don't know how you bounced back.
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You're the pain in my - The hurricane in my - Supersensitive heart, dear. Still I love you, I know, And the reason is merely because You irritate me so!
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In ease of body and peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level, and the beggar, who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.
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The whole sector of public dialogue has been totally contaminated, deliberately, by the corporate sector. The whole purpose is to sow confusion and doubt, and it's worked.
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Not the spectacular things are the important things - the unspectacular things are the important things, especially in the future.
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If you're talking about musically, I think I understand just a little bit more about things that were mostly intuited back then - how certain timings and tones work, so I can be a little more analytical about things now.
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Every single being, even those who are hostile to us, is just as afraid of suffering as we are, and seeks happiness in the same way we do. Every person has the same right as we do to be happy and not to suffer. So let's take care of others wholeheartedly, of both our friends and our enemies. This is the basis for true compassion.
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Failing to plan is planning to fail.
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I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.
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I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty.
