Jo Brand Quotes

When I was at school you got an overall general education on many things, even just basic facts.

Jo Brand

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• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • American
  • Education
  • Single

• I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • School
  • Art
  • Design

• The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Education
  • Information

• I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Time
  • Family
  • Business

• I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • School
  • Africa
  • Canada

• The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Work
  • Family
  • Fun

• Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.

  

  Camila Alves
  • People
  • Up
  • Education

• I used to worry about what would happen five or 10 years from now, but I don't anymore. I thought about going to medical school because that has always interested me, but decided against it.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • School
  • Worry
  • Thought

• When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Believe
  • Education
  • Kind

• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • School
  • Education

• Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy - entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Women
  • Small
  • Energy

• I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Desire
  • Myself
  • Find

• I never wanted to be a director. I came into this industry by the little door, so I never learned anything; I never went to school. Actors will tell you I'm very precise. I just have the intuition of doing things.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • School
  • Door
  • Doing

• Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Education
  • Reading
  • Worth

• Trade is very good for the country. It's very good for the GDP. It's good for wages, but it doesn't mean it's always good for every business. So we should have trade assistance, which is about relocation, re-education, and training.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • Good
  • Country
  • Business

• I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

  

  Art Alexakis
  • Rock

• 'Tristan' is a very unique case, not just in Wagner's output, but in music in general. It remains contemporary no matter what else surrounds it. There is something self-renewing about it.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Unique
  • Matter

• More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.

  

  Alex Tabarrok
  • Life

• I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Life
  • Real

• When I was at school you got an overall general education on many things, even just basic facts.

  

  Jo Brand
  • School
  • Education