Bertrand Russell Quotes

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

Bertrand Russell

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• Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.

  

  Garry Moore
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Home

• It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Up
  • Movies
  • Building

• I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • School
  • College
  • New York

• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Evil

• In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Country
  • Nature
  • Control

• We all want to be the sexy girl.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Want
  • Girl
  • Sexy

• No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • True
  • Patriotism
  • Rebellion

• And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Want
  • You
  • Play

• I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.

  

  Pat Boone
  • People
  • Good
  • Performance

• I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • Future
  • Soul

• I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Hate
  • Religion
  • Easy

• Curvy is something to be proud of.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Proud
  • Something
  • Curvy

• My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Line

• Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Book
  • Religious

• Sometimes, once a fight starts, you have to do what you have to do to win.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Sometimes
  • Win
  • Fight

• Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a process.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Good
  • Process
  • Through

• You cannot underestimate the impact the Internet has had on British fashion.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Fashion
  • Internet
  • Impact

• There's a lot of improv in 'Girls'.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Lot
  • Improv

• I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people.

  

  Emma Caulfield
  • People
  • Up

• Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Job
  • Health
  • Joy

• What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity.

  

  Siobhan Davies
  • Energy
  • Creativity
  • Exciting

• We obviously need his defense at some level. It's good to have him back in the offense, but we weren't smooth with him in there offensively, though.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Good
  • Defense
  • Level

• I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Myself
  • Same
  • Mistakes

• I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

  

  Bertrand Russell