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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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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Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect.
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Certainly Christianity is an experience, but equally clearly the validity of ane experience has to be tested. There are people in lunatic asylums who have the experience of being the Emperor Napoleon or a poached egg. It is unquestionably an experience, and to them a real experience, but for all that it has no kind of universal validity. It is necessary to go far beyond simply saying that something comes from experience. Before any such thing can be evaluated at all, the source and character of the experience must clearly be investigated.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet.
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I feel like that intellectual but plain-looking lady who was warmly complimented on her beauty.
