Russell Brand Quotes

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The priority of any addict is to anesthetize the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.

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I think many of the boundaries that convention has placed upon us are arbitrary, so we can fiddle with them if we fancy. Gravity's hard to dispute, and breathing, but a lot of things we instinctively obey are a lot of old tosh.

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A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo...

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To this day, I feel a fierce warmth for women that have the same disregard for the social conventions of sexual protocol as I do. I love it when I meet a woman and her sexuality is dancing across her face, so it's apparent that all we need to do is nod and find a cupboard.

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Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more — 'damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial'.

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Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn't do.

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I don't like little chip and pin machines. I don't like that they tell you what to do. 'Hand me back to the merchant!' like a bossy toddler.

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As we sweep away the mistakes made in the selfish, nocturnal darkness we must ensure that, amidst the broken glass and sadness, we don't sweep away the youth lost amongst the shards in the shadows cast by the new dawn.

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And drinking neat liquor from the bottle, with all my long hair and my shirt undone and my beads, not so much the lizard king, more a gecko duchess, I fitted in nicely with their idea of what a creative person should be.

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For me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all at once you fall in love; or a frozen second in a park where it's enough that there are trees in the world.

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Over the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of church bells. Strange it was. Why no proper bells? I never went in but I bet it was a robot church for androids, where the Bible was in binary and their Jesus had laser eyes and metal claws.

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The only Revolution that can really change the world is the one in your own consciousness, and mine has already begun.

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Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful.

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The economy is just a metaphorical device, it's not real. That's why it's got the word con in it.

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Socialism isn't a dirty word; it just means sharing. Really, it's just the bureaucratic arm of Christianity.

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Consciousness exists beyond your head, between our heads, and it can manifest harmony.

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The utilities and facilities of major corporations can be confiscated and given to democratic collectives

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Anyone who's been poor and gets rich is stalked by guilt and fear. Guilt because you know it isn't fair, that life hasn't changed for everyone

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We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.

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Of all the consumer products, chewing gum is perhaps the most ridiculous: it literally has no nourishment — you just chew it to give yourself something to do with your stupid idiot Western mouth. Half the world is starving, and the other's going, 'I don't actually need any nutrition, but it would be good to masticate, just to keep my mind off things.

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Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

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If we don't want our young people to tear apart our communities then don't let people in power tear apart the values that hold our communities together.

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The need to find out what will happen if I don't relent or moderate my actions has been a constant source of difficulty and discomfort in my life.

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Life's never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you'd want it to look.

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What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity.

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If you have no brothers and sisters it defines you for life; even when you're thirty you refer to yourself as an only child.

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Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.

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I've always been a 'your parents have got to come up to the school' type of person. Even now, when I do something wrong - if I say something inappropriate on a live tv show, for example - I half expect to have to deliver a note to Barbara Brand: 'Please come up to Channel 4 head office, Russell's done something despicable.

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I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.

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All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.

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