Bertrand Russell Quotes
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I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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When the government takes more money out of the pockets of middle class Americans, entrepreneurs, and businesses, it lessens the available cash flow for people to spend on goods and services, less money to start businesses, and less money for businesses to expand - i.e. creating new jobs and hiring people.
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Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
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The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.
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From a scientific point of view, our mission is to seek answers to the fundamental questions about the universe. Many are open - we don't know about dark matter, which accounts for a quarter of the universe's matter, nor do we know why there's antimatter.
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When I read that nobody should ever feel ashamed to be alone or to be in a crowd, I realized that I often felt ashamed of both of those things.
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I believe that our teachers need more freedom to be creative in the classroom in order to maximize the time students spend learning, not the time they spend taking tests.
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No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
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I don't like the spirit of socialism – I think freedom is the basis of everything.
