Bertrand Russell Quotes
The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have, for doing the opposite.
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I'm a strong woman.
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I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
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I've seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It's kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of 'us against you,' even with fashion. That sucks. It's not the way the world is supposed to be.
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I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.
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No parent would fail to call the doctor if their child developed a fever.
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Sometimes there are customers who get in difficulty because of situations that are out of their control. These are customers with genuine needs, and the role of the bank is to accommodate these customers, and there is a real need to reschedule the loans of these customers.
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Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.
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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
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I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.
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You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.
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You can always improve your fitness if you keep training.
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Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying.
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I have heard some stuff that might be influenced by my records, but it's usually pretty wacky and off-the-wall, which is kind of annoying, to be frank.
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The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
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Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.
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School was just kind of something where it was like, 'Um, I guess I should get my bachelor's.' My mind is always geared towards the practical.
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The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.
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I believe in racial memory too. I'm sure I've got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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Of course, bankers were always interested in making money. But when bankers had clients, they bore some responsibility for the clients' welfare.
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If you are going to go to Heaven, I'm going to Heaven. But I don't believe in Heaven.
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The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.
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The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have, for doing the opposite.
