Bertrand Russell Quotes

Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable. The End.

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• From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Food
  • Amazing
  • Talent

• I didn't go to church, I didn't go to synagogue; I went to temple, Hindu temple, where I prayed to my Hindu gods - whether or not I believe in it is another story.

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • Believe
  • Church
  • I Believe

• I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Tennis
  • Lucky
  • Very

• For your information, I would like to ask a question.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Question
  • Like
  • Information

• I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Night
  • Yourself
  • Talk

• I see girls who are so skinny on the catwalks, and I know so many of them destroy their lives and their family's lives.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Family
  • Know
  • See

• I love nature. I'm not going to do anything to detract from it.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Nature
  • Going
  • Detract

• What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

  

  Ovid
  • Reason
  • Now
  • Instinct

• If you can't hear language, you won't be able to understand language and experience normal development. Every minute spent without hearing is a minute a child is not getting back.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Experience
  • Language
  • Child

• One thing I really love in my single, 'Just Can't Let You Go,' is the beatboxing; I think it's really cool. Also, in my music, I'm not afraid to say what I want to say. I also think it's relatable for other girls out there.

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • Love
  • Single

• Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Music
  • God
  • Book

• In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Priorities

• There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Creative
  • Wonderful
  • Out

• In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn't fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • City
  • Short
  • Insanity

• We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • World
  • Politics
  • Illusion

• I did a TV show called 'Unit 1.' It wasn't a bad experience, but yes, the first season I didn't have a good time because I was coming from Nicolas Winding Refn films where the corners were sharp and radical, but now we had round corners.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Experience

• I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • May
  • Nature
  • Soul

• When I speak, my Urdu isn’t very good but when I sing I make sure there are no flaws in my diction.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Good

• We use many expressions of fennel: blended with potato, it's an earthy, rich puree; the raw fronds add a fresh, green note; and the braised version gives it a luscious, home-cooked feel, something people can connect to - you need that in any dish.

  

  Daniel Humm
  • People
  • Home
  • Green

• Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • God
  • Common Sense
  • Omniscient

• I traveled really to amazing places. I went to the Great Barrier Reef, I went to the Amazon, I went to the Andes, to try to bring people stories of sort of what's going on out in the world and bring this issue alive, in a way, and put it out there.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Stories
  • Issue
  • Traveled

• Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

  

  Max Weber
  • Good
  • Achievement

• Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable. The End.

  

  Bertrand Russell