Bertrand Russell Quotes
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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After being nearly eradicated from the lower 48 states by the 1960s, bald eagles were re-introduced to the Adirondacks in the 1980s, and I'm proud to report the view from my home indicates they are flourishing in upstate New York.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally it is right. But is it the right thing to do? No.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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I choose to express myself.
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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I don't ever want to feel complacent.
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One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
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A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
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I would never be able to spend all my life in a busy city like Mumbai.
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A lot of people have trouble with their second novel - the dreaded sophomore jinx. I wrote three books in between the two novels, and they just weren't very good.
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'Tis God gives skill,But not without men's hands: He could not makeAntonio Stradivari's violinsWithout Antonio.
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When you're in an industry where you're forced to grow up so quickly, part of you never grows up, and that's a good thing.
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The more I worked on 'Half Brother,' the more it seemed to me the story was really about love in all its possible forms - how and why we decide to bestow it, or withdraw it; how we decide what is more worthy of being loved, and what is less. We are masters of conditional love.
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If being in a band was my job, then I would quit. This is not a good job. A good job is in financial management.
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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
