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Jo Brand Quotes

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: british
Birth: July 23, 1957

Topics

Myself Diary Old Miserable Used

I don't look good in beige.

We need a national focus on increasing the sustainable growth rate of our economy.

Growth Focus Need Economy Our Rate

I've had Susan Sarandon play my mom, and now Lesley Ann Warren has played my mom, so if I could have Debra Winger play my mom, then I would have the trifecta of my favorite actresses playing my mother.

Mother Mom Play Now Playing Would

We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustration and poverty, we must expect to pay the price.

Children Frustration Grow Poverty Up

Once you put in backdoors, once you allow a government to intercept anything they want, you have to give it to other governments around the world. Once you do that, there is no privacy; there is no security. There is no protection for democracy.

John T. Chambers

Government Democracy World You Want

Pleasure has ever more been represented by poets and by painters as clothed in perpetual smiles and adorned with the richest jewels; and in real life, we have known many who, allured by her deceptions, blandishments, and hollow but showy temptations, have followed as she pointed until ruin has befallen them.

Life More She Real Smiles Pleasure

Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.

Work Time Architecture Creative Fish

It is always the village women who drive these things.

Women Drive Village Always Things

I think it's less risky for the Kerry campaign to embrace former President Clinton than it is to reject him.

Stuart Rothenberg

Think Embrace President Him Than

I used to be a freelance journalist, so I had to write fast, but I always found writing nonfiction constraining. I like the freedom of fiction, where I get to invent everything, and tidy, conclusive endings are within my control.

Michelle Gagnon

Freedom Writing Control Fast Write

It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.

Opportunity Money Someone Own Give

We do not have the transportation infrastructure that all you in the lower 48 have. We don't have energy grids that tie us in.

Energy Transportation You Tie Us

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