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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• Even when something sad or tragic happens, I find a way to look at it in a positive light. People who don't have a sense of humor must be so sad all the time.

  

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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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• With the release of her fourth album, 'Red,' in 2012 and a handful of highly publicized romances, Taylor was criticized by the press and other entertainers for such sinful acts as dating people and writing songs about it, gaining a reputation as boy-crazy and love-ridden.

  

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• Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

  

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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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• I think people have found it very interesting that those that enforce ObamaCare, those that wrote Obamacare, are not a part of ObamaCare.

  

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• When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.

  

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• I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings.

  

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• The first time I crawled into the octagon, I just felt like an animal, you know? Like a creature, like I wasn't quite human.

  

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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.

  

  Jo Brand
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