Bertrand Russell Quotes
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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I waited for my first kiss.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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I would like to direct.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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I've been training quite hard.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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I remember how often some of us walked out of the darkness of the Lower East Side and into the brilliant sunlight of Washington Square.
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Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations.
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The rise of women and feminism is well documented. What is equally fascinating - and less talked about - is the impact this has had on men.
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The Cold War has been over for a long time. I'm not interested in having battles that, frankly, started before I was born.
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In art the Chinese aim at being exquisite, and in life at being reasonable.
