J.J. Brown Quotes

I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously.

There are not that many people who know how to edit. It's a funny tiny little obscure talent but it's very special. You have to have the feeling of popular taste.

O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity.

Nothing but religious faith has been able to save men from despair.

Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.

Education teaches people how to think, while propaganda teaches people what to think.

You have to do what you have to do.

I'd shrink government in a minute, if I could shrink GM, Bank of America, and all these immoral corporations that operate by an undemocratic code, with no soul and no conscience.

We're going to move left and right at the same time.

It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.

‎We need to become more unreasonable but in an intelligent way.

The corporation is not a person; it is a legal fiction backed up by guns and police and jail cells and taxing authorities and the regulators called government.

Basically, if you have above-average intelligence, you have common sense and you can speak in front of a camera and to a crowd, you can govern the state.

Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat to the continuation of civilization.

America and the world is not yet on the proper trajectory.

We're going to get that little bug before that little bug gets my poll ratings down any further.

At least when I was govenor, cocaine was expensive.

I've been in office and I've been out of office. And if I were to choose, I'd rather be in office.

We are in a degenerate state of self-government. In fact, even to use the words self-government, is not only an exaggeration, it's a lie. It's a big lie!

Look at the whole criminal correction game, which is a big piece of our economy. It's just an invention. Crime is being invented to put people to work.

We’re being ripped off and screwed by a bunch of liars, thieves, crooks, and criminals, and they’re not the folks below. Don’t look in the streets, look in the corporate suites.

The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners.

So we are being systematically trained to fear this false 'rising crime' tide. This is all part of a system to lock up more people, and impose more control and surveillance.

The way people are treated in them [prisons] is very similar to gulags.

Then once you get people locked up, it's an incredibly inhuman system.

Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.

Not to mention the CIA which should be, I think, dissolved, it's of no use - a great source of mischief - I don't see any point to the FBI.

Let's draw the boundary early not wait until it's obvious like Hitler's Germany and insist that the state shall never, never, take the life of a person!

The great danger of humane punishment is that people will come to accept state murder as something sanitary. I don't think bureaucracy should ever be entrusted with that kind of power.

The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein.

My goal in signing these [gun control ] bills is to enhance public safety by tightening our existing laws in a responsible and focused manner, while protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners.

I supported to reduce oil consumption in California by 50 percent, 50 percent in the next 15 years. They didn't even bother to show up.

Even when you sign a treaty like I think [Richard] Nixon did, the anti-ballistic missile treaty, George W. Bush reneged on it. He got out of. So any treaty can be withdrawn from.

I don't mind giving everyone a shock - including myself.

At 17, we all think we know what we're doing.

I do so many things. Like when I was younger, if I drove past a house that I didn't want to live in, I'd hold my breath. Driving around somewhere like Slough I'd go blue in the face.

Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.

Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.

When you get a bit older and you realise that no one knows what they're doing, no one's perfect and it's fine.

Unfortunately I had an ankle problem and underwent three operations.

I love when people become obsessed with Downton.

I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.

Before I go on stage, I knock three times. Three is my lucky number; I once went into an audition and was number 333 and got the best part ever.

I remember stealing some pic n' mix when I was seven; when I got out of the shop, I burst into tears.

I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.

I'm hungry for a cold and mean character - I'd love it if someone thought I could play gritty. I want to play a baddie, someone really scary.

I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too.

Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful - those stories, they're just incredible.

The three greatest people in my life as a young person were white. I'm not a person that really deals in color.

I had a choice to be lazy or lean - if I hadn't changed, thing probably would catch up with me.