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• I think that at the start of a game, you're always playing to win, and then maybe if you're ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

  Tom Brady

  Winning, Thinking, Games

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.

  Jo Brand

  Food, Weight Loss, Chocolate

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• As a comic and as a nurse, it's important to look calm on the surface when you're absolutely crapping yourself inside. So, if someone is waving a machete at you, which has happened to me when I was a nurse, it's important to make that person feel that you're in control.

  Jo Brand

  Nurse, Important, Looks

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• I believe that if your brain has to get to grips with complicated words, then you won't get Alzheimer's. I'm sure it's not true, but I do believe it.

  Jo Brand

  Believe, Alzheimer's, Brain

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• I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately.

  Jo Brand

  Writing, Thinking, Difficult

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• I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did.

  Jo Brand

  Moving, Opportunity, Risk

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• If I am totally honest, I would have to say that ''Allo 'Allo!' was not my cup of tea, even though lots of people loved it. For that reason, I find comedy fascinating. There is a huge difference between what people find funny.

  Jo Brand

  Differences, People, Tea

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• It's inevitable that if you do okay on something like that you don't just annoy people, that it will make a difference because it seemed like such a lot of people so, yes I would have to say that it has done.

  Jo Brand

  Differences, People, Annoyed

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• Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely dismiss them? It's like saying: if someone votes Tory can you like them? And, yes, I can. I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways. We have a tendency to oversimplify things.

  Jo Brand

  Attitude, Mean, Men

  "Jo Brand: 'National treasure? I'd rather maintain a taint of national disgrace'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.

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• I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

  Russell Brand

  People, Would Be, Analysis

  "Russell Brand: This charming man". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2010.

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• There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

  Dorothea Brande

  Self, Novelists, Growing

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.130, Lulu.com

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• If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Respect, Law, Desire

  "A Treasury of Jewish Quotations". Book by Joseph L. Baron, 1996.

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• If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  School, Light, Mind

  Louis D. Brandeis (2009). “Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.

  Richard Branson

  School, Years, Understanding

  "Life at 30,000 feet". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. March, 2007.

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• Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.

  Richard Branson

  Life, People, Balance

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• I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

  Richard Branson

  Success, Business, Feelings

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• My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

  Richard Branson

  Philosophy, New Ventures, Marketing

  The Sunday Mirror Interview, January 16, 2000.

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• I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.

  Eva Braun

  Three, Cards, Done

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• Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

  Richard Brautigan

  Space, Perfection, Lovely

  "An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey". Book by Richard Brautigan, p.15, 2000.

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• People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Fall, People, Faces

  Bertolt Brecht (2015). “Brecht Collected Plays: 1: Baal; Drums in the Night; In the Jungle of Cities; Life of Edward II of England; & 5 One Act Plays”, p.167, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Long, Literature, Demand

  Bertolt Brecht, Eric Bentley (1948). “Parables for the theatre: The good woman of Setzuan and The Caucasian chalk circle”

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• If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

  George Brett

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• It wouldn't matter whether you were Latino or Hispanic or Norwegian. If you didn't have proof of citizenship and if the police officer had reasonable suspicion, he would ask and verify your citizenship. I mean, that's the way that it is. That's what the federal law says. And that's what the law in Arizona says.

  Jan Brewer

  Mean, Law, Police

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• Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

  Fanny Brice

  Motivational, Being Yourself, Self Esteem

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads.

  Jeff Bridges

  Philosophy, Heart, Caring

  "Jeff Bridges: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2010.

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