Bertrand Russell Quotes
I feel like that intellectual but plain-looking lady who was warmly complimented on her beauty.
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
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Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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Of course what is talked about in the U.N. General Assembly is very important. Officials, the leaders of nations, appear there to speak of the most important topics - what they perceive to be the most important topics.
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We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.
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More than a victim, I am a survivor of a dehumanization process.
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All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.
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I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.
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You do not defend a world that is already lost.
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I never pursued acting with, like, auditions. If anything, I was given roles by people who knew me and liked what I did.
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Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered almost religiously, both the institution and its quickly growing member base.
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Racist people, interestingly, are never as polite as smokers. Have you noticed that? Smokers always go, 'Do you mind if I smoke? Oh, you do? Okay, I'll go outside and have a cigarette.' Racist people never go, 'Do you mind if I'm racist? Oh, I'll go outside … fucking blue people, eh? Coming here, steal our hamsters …'
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I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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I do not ask that flowers should always springBeneath my feetI know too well the poison and the stingOf things too sweet.
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This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.
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There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are.
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Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.
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I feel like that intellectual but plain-looking lady who was warmly complimented on her beauty.
