Bertrand Russell Quotes

Some part of life – perhaps the most important part – must be left to the spontaneous action of individual impulse, for where all is system there will be mental and spiritual death.

Bertrand Russell

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
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• The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
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• I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

  

  Manuel Puig
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• Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being in the theater so much, because the roles tend to be really on the page.

  

  Laura Benanti
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• It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
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• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
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• When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
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• I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
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• I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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• I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
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• When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!

  

  Paris Hilton
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• I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.

  

  Halsey
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• When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
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• As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.

  

  Eddie Murphy
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• If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.

  

  Eden Hazard
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• I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.

  

  A.J. Styles
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• Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'

  

  Parker Posey
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• The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• I'm gonna give them the advice that I always took myself, that it's better to get to know somebody before you jump into the sack with them. Because then if you jump into the sack and fall in love, and you liked them already, you're home free.

  

  Pia Zadora
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• Treefingers is important, it's the point in which our protagonist crosses the icy tundra that is how to disappear completely to reach the island of Optimistic. But seriously, kill yourself.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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• In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem.

  

  Elie Metchnikoff
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• Some part of life – perhaps the most important part – must be left to the spontaneous action of individual impulse, for where all is system there will be mental and spiritual death.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Important
  • Death