Top 100 Russell Brand Quotes
#1. Surfing should be called "foam-choking" or "sea stabbing.
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#2. I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like most people I regard politicians as frauds and liars and the current political system as nothing more than a bureaucratic means for furthering the augmentation and advantages of economic elites.
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#3. Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.
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#4. I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles.
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#5. People don't realize that the future is just now, but later.
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#6. I get fixated when I'm bleeding
I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.
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#7. Eventually, I think you find a spiritual and emotional connection with someone, and I think it unifies you with everyone else. I think if you love one person, it makes you love everyone ...
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#8. All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.
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#9. Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.
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#10. The greatest poverty one can have is to be poor in one's heart and for falling in love, he is truly happy. He discovers purpose.
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#11. Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction.
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#12. People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.
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#13. As a producer, you've got to be involved in helping out with solving problems.
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#14. If you can be free from pride, self-pity, self-centeredness, selfishness, jealousy, envy, intolerance, impatience, greed, gluttony, lust, sloth, arrogance, and dishonesty, then there is a state of serenity and connectedness within.
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#15. I was like Elvis "The Pelvis" Presley on Ed Sullivan, I tells ya, punished for the crime of being sexy. (him on the telly , me in a dingy alley ... any analogy will break down under scrutiny.)
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#16. The right to free speech is important but it isn't as important as 'we're all human beings together, let's find solutions together.'
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#17. Once there the main man, the bearded preacher, bridles and jabs, spasms and gurns like a pre-ejaculatory James Brown.
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#18. Our social and economic systems are so devoid of humanity and love.
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#20. When you're married, it's one person. That's one more than a monk. It's not that different.
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#21. Imagine the wisdom to be passed down from the classical Buddhist texts.
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#22. When you fall in love you recognise you're not the most important person in the world, and your focus becomes another person.
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#23. The happiest moments in our life aren't "Oh I got a new hat or a wonderful silvery object, some glistening bauble." But it's when you connect with another human being. If you can find the $18 in your pocket, you are purchasing dreams with that money.
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#24. You can't absolutely make everything the way you want it to be in life. Sometimes thing are just different and then you to just move with that and try and remain in contact with what is beautiful about yourself and each other with any situation.
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#25. I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'
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#26. The only meaningful interpretation of any religious teaching is to honor the divine within ourselves and love the divine in one another.
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#27. Invisible violence in Pakistan, violence against brown people, ongoing violence in Iraq - that's got to be quantified in the same way as the cinematic glamorous violence that happens in recognisable cities.
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#28. There's no biological reason why a man shouldn't just try to have sex with every woman he meets - all of them get pregnant and your genetics are winning.
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#29. No one shuts their laptop after looking at pornography and says, 'What a productive time I just spent connecting with the world!'
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#30. Consciousness exists beyond your head, between our heads, and it can manifest harmony.
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#31. I like threesomes with two women, not because I'm a cynical sexual predator. Oh no! But because I'm a romantic. I'm looking for "The One." And I'll find her more quickly if I audition two at a time.
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#32. If you strip away self-effacement, charm and the spirit of mischief-qualities that make determination and ambition tolerable- you're left with a right ar**hole.
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#33. Murderers! Stop murdering. Everyone will die eventually. Just sit down and be patient.
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#35. It was crushingly disappointing as a fan of The Simpsons to discover that it's just you in a room speaking into a microphone. I thought I was going to become friends with Homer Simpson, but unfortunately none of them are real.
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#36. Have you considered that the Bible, like all religious doctrine, may be allegorical and symbolic, to direct us toward one holy entity of love, as opposed to a simplistic litiginous text to direct the behavior of human beings?
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#37. I don't mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have.
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#38. If you don't choose heroes, heroes will be chosen for you, and they will not represent values that empower you, they will represent powers that will enslave you
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#39. Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends time and space.
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#40. What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing ... having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity.
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#41. Be the change you wish to see in the world," said Gandhi. If you want a nonviolent world, you cannot use violence to achieve it. He also said, "In the end the British will walk out because 100,000 British cannot control 350 million Indians if those Indians refuse to cooperate.
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#42. That's what keeps me alive, perversion and star quality.
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#43. Well this all seems like a bit of a storm in a teacup!
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#44. Apathy is a rational reaction to a system that no longer represents, hears or addresses the vast majority of people.
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#45. Question all information when you receive it. You might not even trust me Look at me, I've got a blanket over me head.
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#46. The need to find out what will happen if I don't relent or moderate my actions has been a constant source of difficulty and discomfort in my life.
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#47. All desires are the inappropriate substitute for the desire to be at one with God.
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#48. We apply reality from within. The world is our perception of the world. So what other people think of you, famous or not, is an independent construct taking place in their brain, and we shouldn't worry too much about it.
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#49. I also quite like to be recognized by children; I find it sweet.
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#50. You're a musician, it is important that you suffer!
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#51. Imagining the overthrow of the current political system is the only way I can be enthused about politics.
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#52. We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful
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#53. If people associate you with the idea of loads of money, they in turn will give some of that money to you.
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#54. It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing.
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#55. If your body is 90% water what have you got to drink water all the time for? Why can't you just have some crisps?
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#56. To make the world work for 100 percent of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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#57. I keep hearing in my head "you are the Messiah, you are the Messiah". I think there's something wrong with my headphones.
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#58. This is why people get obsessed with festivals, or clubs, or drugs, or football, or other temporal approximations of togetherness; these distilled vials of the elixir are craved by our starved souls.
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#59. What I liked about it is in the world of children, there are very, very different rules and a kind of naivete and innocence and sweetness that's been beautifully captured, I think, by this film as you can even see [gesturing toward the film's poster on display nearby] from this gorgeous artwork.
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#60. We are at a turning point; the exploitation has now reached a pitch where the disenfranchised and exploited can look to a culpable minority with vengeful eyes. This minority, though, cannot be defined by the color of their skin but by the color of their god. Green.
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#62. If anybody needs any help with anything, I'm prepared to help.
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#63. I didn't cross the line, you drew it in after I traversed it.
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#64. My belief is that we do not currently operate on a frequency of consciousness that is capable of interpreting the information required to understand the great mystery. I
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#65. Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more - 'damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial'.
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#66. My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.
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#67. I'm a recovering drug addict, so it's not a subject that I take lightly, but I do agree that the criminalization of narcotics is the deliberate inhibition of human consciousness.
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#68. When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.
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#69. We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy.
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#70. Amy Winehouse - her surname's beginning to sound like a description of her liver.
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#71. I'm famous now. But now that I've got fame and some of the other things I thought would make me happy - it ain't worked
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#72. What I might do is watch Mrs Doubtfire. Or Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting and I might be nice to people, mindful today how fragile we all are, how delicate we are, even when fizzing with divine madness that seems like it will never expire.
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#73. By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.
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#74. When you get Richard Dawkins yapping menopausally at some poor hamstrung old archbishop, while we dismantle our environment due to the materialistic, pessimistic principles that the atheistic tyranny of the day is tacitly sponsoring, it is time to look for a new story.
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#75. Managing wildlife? It's wild! It don't need managing, leave it alone.
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#76. Animals, children, and the working class comprise the company in which I'll feel most at ease.
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#77. Organize society effectively. The capitalist system is not the result of our collective greed; it is the manifestation of the greed of a few and the manipulation of the many. A global superstructure has been established to
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#78. The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.
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#79. I don't see why someone should lose their life just so you can have a snack.
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#80. You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.
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#81. The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.
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#82. If you're a drug addict, often you're stealing - I've gotten done for shoplifting a few times.
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#83. I'm a vegetarian. I believe that we're all equal. I ain't got no right to kill. Say a fly comes in my house, I tolerate that little a**hole.
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#84. My modus operandi is that I'll be content with anything, as long as I know that it's the best that's possible.
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#85. Spurred by Amy's death I've tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm and am always, always just pulled inside myself.
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#86. Sometimes, as a comedian, a line will come to you, that is so beautiful, so perfect, that you think: I did not create this line. This line belongs to all of us. Surely this is a line of God.
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#87. Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.
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#88. Mark Twain, the thinking man's Colonel Sanders, reputedly said, America is New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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#89. It's no wonder Bob Geldof knows so much about famine - he's been dining out on I Don't Like Mondays for 30 years,
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#90. I'm into yoga, I meditate all the time, I'm vegetarian.
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#91. Tumbling into a dark, Lewis Carroll labyrinth of filth, pursuing a white rabbit of smut!
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#92. I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless.
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#93. I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!
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#94. Turns out it was mostly a lie. But, at least for a short while, it was a beautiful one.
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#95. You have to forgive everyone for everything. You can't cling on to any blame that you may be using to make sense of the story of your life.
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#96. It seems to me that a lot of people are using religious arguments to advance their own prejudices.
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#97. Page 3 is a crazy concept whereby for no discernable reason, a national newspaper prints a photograph of a young woman showing her tits. I'd object but I'm too enamoured with the boobs ...
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#98. How long is it polite to continue to be interested in what someone says after they reveal they've got a boyfriend?
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#99. People who say the system works work for the system.
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#100. Our basic fundamental desires are overly stimulated. A friend of mine said, "you have a generation of people that have been accidentally marketed to."
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