Jo Brand Quotes
When you cry, you don't look very attractive; you look snotty and blotchy. People seem to manage to cry quite prettily these days, and to me, that smacks of not being very genuine.
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I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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Marylanders are among the nation's hardest working and most educated people. We have universities and schools that are among the best in the nation.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
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We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.
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I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.
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People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.
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I think, if you create the right economic framework in terms of government policy, that Saskatchewan can continue to succeed and grow. Instead of having people migrate from Saskatchewan, they will be migrating to Saskatchewan.
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People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
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I'm a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am.
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To this day, when I say that I went to the American Academy, people are very impressed. The reputation of the school has always been fantastic.
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If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.
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Once we started headlining at the Fillmore East, we were free to play all night, at least for the second set. 'Whipping Post' could get lengthy.
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When you cry, you don't look very attractive; you look snotty and blotchy. People seem to manage to cry quite prettily these days, and to me, that smacks of not being very genuine.
