"I have big friends who won't go swimming because they're too embarrassed about it. I feel that's such a shame, because actually people should be encouraging fat people who are exercising to do it, not pointing and laughing."

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Source : "Jo Brand: fat jokes matter". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2011.

Jo Brand

#Exercise Quotes #Swimming Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement.”
“To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.”
“I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.”
“Whoever leads an auspicious life here and governs the commonwealth rightly, as my most noble father did, who promoted all piety and banished all ignorance, has a most certain way to heaven.”

Source : "Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence" edited by Janel Mueller, University Of Chicago Press, (pp. 128-129), 2011.
“All you are or ever shall become is the result of the use to which you put your mind.”
“Waste in all its forms is to be abhorred... I deplore giving money to an institution that is careless in its expenditures.”
“As a musician, we should always want to strive to be better, we can always make improvements. It's easy to get comfortable and it's easy to find your voice and your sound, but I always wanted to be better.”
“There is something I call social intelligence. You can do a lot in life on your own and you can do all kinds of stuff, but if you're really bad with people, if you're really naive or aggressive and push people away, if you don't know the political environment you're in, it invalidates all the things you know. You're not going to get anywhere.”

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