Jo Brand Quotes

I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and riding donkeys that we shouldn't have been riding.

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• Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Government
  • Parent

• If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Up
  • Down

• While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!

  

  Lake Bell
  • Marriage
  • Husband
  • Dreams

• There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Society
  • Way
  • Better

• I'm just glad to be able to work.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Work
  • Just
  • Glad

• I come home from trying to pretend to know about astronomy and physics all day and turn on 'The Real Housewives'.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Home

• I think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let's start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Women

• Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • You
  • Learn
  • Mission

• I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Love
  • Range
  • Subtlety

• If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you - and kiss your math.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Money
  • Smart
  • Kiss

• I would watch the remaining 12 or so episodes of 'Breaking Bad' I haven't seen by noon tomorrow, but my wife would kill me. I watched all five seasons of 'The Wire' in a month, and she was not happy about it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Happy
  • Wife
  • Tomorrow

• When I moved to Bombay, it was very harsh. I was nothing like what I am today. I couldn't speak a word of English. In England, people might be very understanding about that, but in Bombay, they're not very forgiving. 'If you don't speak English, how do you expect to work in Hindi films?'

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Work
  • Today

• I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.

  

  Nathan Kirsh
  • Money
  • Want
  • Lying

• Everyone in business is tenacious and extremely aggressive. If you're not a 'now' person - do it right now - then you're not going to be successful. I like that kind of mentality.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Business
  • Kind
  • Successful

• When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Friends
  • True
  • Know

• We plan to support Exchange 2003 as soon as it is released. We already have the prerelease versions from MSDN.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • Support
  • Plan
  • Exchange

• Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Love
  • Young
  • For Her

• I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Think
  • Fashion
  • Shoes

• Shun all vice, especially card playing.

  

  Nathan Hale
  • Playing
  • Vice
  • Shun

• I mostly did musicals and concerts when I was younger, and then I realized I don't quite have the voice for it, so I went into acting, which I enjoy more.

  

  Lucy Griffiths

• Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Chance
  • Flying
  • Comfort

• Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Perfect
  • Communism
  • Social Democracy

• Thoroughly read all your contracts. I really mean thoroughly.

  

  Bret Michael Sychak Poison

• I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and riding donkeys that we shouldn't have been riding.

  

  Jo Brand