Bertrand Russell Quotes
What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.
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I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
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I remember how much fun it was to pick out my lunchbox. My all-time favorite lunch box was from the movie 'Annie.' Also, I loved picking out school supplies! Trapper Keepers were my favorite.
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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
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When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing something that I shouldn't be doing, then I would no longer be able to go to L.A. and continue to pursue the acting thing.
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What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.
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I meet an enormous number of incredible people all the time, people I find very inspiring, and I'm very busy.
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Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
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Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.
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I made a living being a background singer for years.
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Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look like you at the end of the process. We've all seen people get record contracts, and by the time they're spit out by the machine, we don't even recognize them.
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I love to play golf and watch movies in Tamil and Telugu whenever I get time.
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Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.
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What a dull world if we knew all about geese!
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I'm not usually in a talkative mode.
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I just want to look better by each passing day.
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Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine.
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I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.
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What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.
