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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  Walker Stapleton
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• And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

  

  Walt Whitman
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• I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.

  

  Felicia Day
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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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!

  

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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.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
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• Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
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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.

  

  Ralph Peters
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• I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.

  

  Pat Nixon
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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.

  

  T-Pain
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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.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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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.

  

  Sam Abell
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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.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
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• Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

  

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• Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.

  

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• You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.

  

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• With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.

  

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• I love marketing a lot, and I'm very creative when it comes to developing ideas for shows or publicity campaigns.

  

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• I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art (and a politics) in which optimism is kept in check, and nihilism at bay.

  

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• L.A. is still such a fascinating place to me, so big and diverse. It's so spread out that you can go from Zuma to downtown and there's really like 10 different towns in between.

  

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• I just need to be myself and allow things to happen. If it's God's will, good things will happen.

  

  Jon Jones
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• He (Lakers owner Jerry Buss) knew what he was trying to get accomplished, but still in all, it never quite seems to match up.

  

  Phil Jackson
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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.

  

  Jo Brand
  • She
  • Political
  • Dad