Jo Brand Quotes
There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.
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IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can watch people go by.
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I believe in unconditional love and equality. Jesus Christ exemplified these qualities.
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There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.
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As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
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All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
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The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.
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Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
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I want to just be what kids believe in.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines.
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I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and their problems, so the more believable the family is, the more we can draw the audience in.
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The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
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My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.
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I am not a celebrity. I work with celebrities, and it is very difficult. When a celebrity wears a dress, it's good for business, so brands fight for the red carpet. Me? I don't like it, because fashion becomes a job about dressing celebrities. And it's a bit boring.
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My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.
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I was trying to heal wounds all the time, whether it meant having affairs or having attitude. I didn't want to show how sad I was.
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There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.
