Bertrand Russell Quotes
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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I set myself challenges every time I work. Ideally I approach everything as though it's the first time - with a beginner's mind and an amateur's love.
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Do not, the angel told her, 'ask to see him. His love is a flood. His glory is a fire. You could not withstand it.
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Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
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The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.
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They don't bother too much with the balance and things on blues records.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
