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Jo Brand Quotes

As the Tories know, the problem with setting yourself up as a shining example for others to follow is that when you get caught out, that proverbial substance really hits the fan.

Jo Brand

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Yourself Problem You Know Follow Up

The Strait of Hormuz is an international waterway, and it is not helpful for any nation to suggest that it would attempt to restrict traffic through the strait.

John C. Stennis

Traffic Nation Through Helpful Would

Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was the blues.

Jerry Leiber

Music Time Blues Him Awe Greatest

Effortlessly, I feel like my records have longevity.

Jeremih

Feel Longevity I Feel Like Records

'Mekhi' means, sort of, one who loves water, and the relationship with water and how water is important to life... It's a sense of being needed and purpose - you know, we have a purpose on this earth, and we're here to fill that.

Mekhi Phifer

Life Relationship Water Purpose You

My background is in largely in theatre and acting. I grew up in a town with a well-respected Shakespeare Festival, and I fell in with some kids whose parents worked there. We staged all-kid versions of 'Hamlet', 'Cymbeline', a few others. All the while, I was making short films; monster movies, slapstick comedies, claymation.

Matt Ross

Parents Theatre Short Acting Movies

Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges - the little Alcott Golf and Country Club. I just loved having a wedge in my hands.

Amy Alcott

Rose Soup Loved Golf Hands Country

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

Alphonse de Lamartine

History Details Human Providence

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

Solomon Burke

Choices Sometimes Controversy Our

I think it's really important for every mother to find their own way.

Solange Knowles

Mother Think Find Important Way Own

I am more interested in revolutionary beauty than in the great beauty, to be honest. Italian cinema is now mostly a bureau for tourism. We have given up that revolution of the contemporary.

Luca Guadagnino

Beauty Great I Am Revolution Cinema

Recession-resistant development produces things people need. Unsustainable growth churns out tinsel products that consumers have to be seduced into buying - until times get tough, when they quickly give them up.

Donella Meadows

Growth People Tough Development Need

Everyone drinks more during a recession; they want to forget.

Christian Audigier

Forget Want More Everyone Recession