Jo Brand Quotes

My personal opinion is that you can't be racist towards white people. You can be prejudiced about them, but being prejudiced isn't an illegal act, whereas being racist can be.

Jo Brand

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I was precocious, so I began reading 'Cosmo' when I was 12.

Joanna Coles

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I think one of the things that I picked up from Nigeria is the constant pressure to be excellent. Parents drill in this responsibility towards family, but also a responsibility toward making sure your family name is heralded.

Jidenna

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I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.

Andrew Stanton

StoryYouAlwaysDigLikeFelt

In the world of opinion writing, there's something called the 'to be sure' paragraph. A sort of rhetorical antibiotic, it seeks to defend against critics by injecting a tiny bit of counter-argument before moving on with the main point.

Meghan Daum

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The Lord doesn't always take you in a straight line. He tests you sometimes.

Tony Dungy

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The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world.

Robert C. Solomon

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When I started modeling, I was definitely heavier. I was quite voluptuous in fact. I had a real baby face and baby fat. But I was a baby! I was told I had to get into better shape, but I'm quite stubborn so I didn't.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

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One of the things that I always say about bioterrorism, whether it's ourselves at the federal level, folks at the state level, or folks in the private industry, we've done many great things, especially since 9/11.

Mike Johanns

GreatGreat ThingsDoneSayAlways

You have to be the one promoting yourself. If you don't think that you're worthy, you're never going to make it.

Misty Copeland

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When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

Dick Van Dyke

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I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time.

Douglas Coupland

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I was a real East Village girl.

Drea De Matteo

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