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'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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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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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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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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When someone turns to me and addresses me as 'our Queen', that word means a lot to me because it makes me feel that they know my life is theirs. My joy is their joy. My worries are their worries. If the word 'queen' means something to me, 'our queen' means everything to me.
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If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
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Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs.
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I think all interesting characters have some kind of a complex.
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I would designate as science fiction in the best sense: they are visions and anticipations by which we seek to attain a true knowledge, but, in fact, they are only imaginations whereby we seek to draw near to the reality.
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Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.
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I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else.
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What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself.
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It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the object as a stepping stone to a realm of meaning completely beyond itself.
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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.
