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• It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.

  Ray Bradbury

  Stupid, Land, Mars

  "Ray Bradbury: 'It's Lack That Gives Us Inspiration'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, nhpr.org. June 8, 2012.

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• If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Important, Helping

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• If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

  Ray Bradbury

  Country, Democracy, Way

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• If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can't control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I'm just not going to go outside the house. I'm going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

  Tom Brady

  House, Chill, Reactions

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

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• If you're a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

  Tom Brady

  Football, Nfl, Decision

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

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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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• If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.

  Johannes Brahms

  Insulted Him, Leaving, Pardon

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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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• Everyone in comedy thinks if you go to the U.S. you become a global star but, unfortunately, I've always been a bit anti-American - so I never did.

  Jo Brand

  Stars, Thinking, Comedy

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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 was always being called upon to be an honorary boy alongside my brothers. I don't think I'd be a comic now if it hadn't been for that.

  Jo Brand

  Brother, Boys, Thinking

  "This much I know". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2007.

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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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• If you're a fat person - and especially if you're a woman - at all stages of your life you'll get abuse for it, so you have to work out a way of dealing with it. The best way is to be humorous about it - that defuses any tension.

  Jo Brand

  Humorous, Work Out, Abuse

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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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• You don't really see ugly people that are old, or a bit grotty and smelly, in the media. If a Martian came down, they would think we were all tall, thin, attractive and wealthy.

  Jo Brand

  Thinking, Media, People

  "Sheridan Smith goes BRUNETTE and is barely recognisable as she starts filming movie The More You Ignore Me" by Bethany Minelle, www.mirror.co.uk. November 20, 2016.

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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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• Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Change, Men, Law

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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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  If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

  Marlon Brando

  Brother, Executioners, Keepers

  Marlon Brando's speech written for the Academy Awards, as it appeared in the New York Times, March 30, 1973.

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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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• If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

  Richard Branson

  Entrepreneur, Dollars, Want

  "Lost and Found: Richard Branson’s Virginity" by Carrie M. King, www.blinkist.com. October 27, 2017.

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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 think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Inspirational, Retirement, Children

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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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• I can live a totally normal life and do everything I want to do just as long as I take my medication. My body will give me signals if it gets weak or fatigued, so I know when I need to take a break.

  Toni Braxton

  Long, Giving, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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