Jo Brand Quotes
Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important.
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And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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It's a big plethora of music floating around in my head all the time, and I'll sit there and write a song.
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I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.
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Words are fine, but the most important thing is what happens on the pitch.
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A lot of the women I know, that's what they're complaining about - either the man in their life or the lack of a man in their life.
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Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.
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Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important.
