Bertrand Russell Quotes
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
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Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does 'culture' become necessary as a veneer to cover over the void. Culture can at best appreciate the monuments of earlier faith; it cannot produce them.
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If someone believes that living on benefits is a lifestyle choice, then we need to make them think again.
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The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.
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If I wasn't in this industry, I wouldn't work out.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
