Jo Brand Quotes
My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and posted to Libya, she convinced some general to let her go with him. I don't know how she managed it.
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I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
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I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
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My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.
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You can do more, you can always do more.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.
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Cornelia. What flowers are these?Gazetta. The pansy this.Cor. Oh, that's for lover's thoughts.
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When she was running for election in 2006, I went to Missouri to campaign for Senator Claire McCaskill. She impressed the hell out of me and I fell in love with her mother Betty Anne who is a pistol!
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I don't want to bust my butt for the rest of my life, like my parents.
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My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and posted to Libya, she convinced some general to let her go with him. I don't know how she managed it.
