J.J. Brown Quotes

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.

The best thing about becoming successful is that you get flowers all the time.

I love Kathy Griffin, I think she's brilliant, but for me, there is a line when I go OK, that's too much.

You have to do anything you can think of that gets you excited.

I was always trying to do things to make school fun.

What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.

If we are indeed created in God's image, then we, too, must create and then we, too, must rest.

For some reason, I write about crash-landed spaceships quite a lot and my wife is sick of hearing of hearing my ideas for new tales about them.

I love lighting Shabbat candles at the onset of Shabbat. It helps me create a strong and firm demarcation of time.

For me, study is a divine and daily imperative, and I study a page of Talmud daily so that I am not only teaching. My teaching is constantly being fed by my learning.

If our writing is worth anything at all, then we have to put ourselves into it.

That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.

I love space opera, and I believe that every sub-genre has potential no matter how old it is.

In order to survive, the human race must defend itself.

I love going to synagogue on Friday night and being swept in the melodies. Everyone seems more friendly and unburdened by the week and ready to be taken elsewhere.

I took to religion at about age 12; it was very hard for me to be Sabbath observant as a kid in a home which was not Sabbath observant. I think my parents thought the whole Jewish thing was a phase.

I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.

I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again.

No one can tell time except approximately, time never stands still to be named.

The trouble with making intelligent suggestions is that you're apt to be appointed to carry them out.

The key to getting ahead is setting aside 8 hours a day for work and 8 hours a day for sleep - and making sure they're not the same hours.

2.2 billion worth of military equipment had been stripped from U.S. Forces in West Germany and America and shipped to Israel in an unprecedented day and night airlift.

Under the current pay-as-you-go Social Security system, not one person is actually guaranteed benefits.

The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.

The United Nations greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization.

If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years.

The world today is changing rapidly, and we are helping to make it better for our children's future.

First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.

The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal.

When the strong help the weak, it makes us all stronger

In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people.

The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act.

I hope the Spice Girls will come back, although it may be beyond even Bob Geldof to get that to happen.

Politics seems much less important today. When you see your young daughter smiling as she was, and moving around, it's a superb feeling.

I said that this would be a Budget based on prudence for a purpose and that guides us also in our approach to public spending.

My first rule - the golden rule - ensures that over the economic cycle the Government will borrow only to invest, and that current spending will be met from taxation.

This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child

Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history.

Britain and Pakistan will jointly fight the menace of terrorism .. Both the countries are facing a common threat of terrorism and we know that Pakistan is even more committed to fighting this menace

Tony Blair is the best friend I've had in politics.

I am happy for there to be a leadership contest. I think there should be.

I don't need to read the news. I see it on the faces of everyone I meet.

I think the Internet has real potential for building community. People all around the world talking to each other can't be a bad thing.

If the wind and rain could play guitar, they would sound a lot like Doc Watson

My job as a songwriter is to write good songs.

I don't think that good politics ever excuse a bad song.

It's impossible for me to think of music as a contest. All of the awards ceremonies, I mean I'm sure they're fun for people, but they have no meaning to me.

I always try to hit a few areas when I'm making a record; I want the sounds to be experimental and exploratory, I want the drumming to be distinctive, and I want my voice to be able to shine through.

You can communicate by responding with your body or with a hand clap, with a laugh or with a smile, with non-verbal communication.

My sound is super hybrid; the acoustic sounds are there and the electronic sounds are there.