The very idea that you can somehow make your life alright by attaining primitive material goals – whether it’s getting the ideal relationship, the ideal job, a beautiful Berber rug or forty quids’ worth of smack – the underlying idea, ‘if I could just get X, Y, Z, I would be okay’, is consistent and it is quite wrong.

— Russell Brand

Russell Brand Quotes

Death grip, by the way, is the literal translation of the word “mortgage.

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I sought sanctuary in the twilight cemeteries entombed in strangers’ limbs.

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If a conservative is a mugged liberal, a dad is a knackered Jesus.

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This spiritual life, in the end it is not a choice, it’s what’s left when you run out of choices.

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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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How do you not succumb to base emotions?’ I asked him. He said: ‘When I feel jealous or prideful it reminds me that I need to move closer to God.

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The reason I continue to is because they have awakened me to the impossibility of happiness based on my previous world view: that I am the centre of the world and that what I want is important.

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Fortunately, both for you and me, I grew up to become a comedian and will make it as jolly as possible. In the words of Morrissey – “I can smile about it now, but at the time it was terrible.” I.

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Like a world build around excellence at a niche bagatelle, or a dumb parlour trick, or board game; the masters of the universe are just experts at Hungry Hippo.

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Like all forms of delusion the key is to let go of it before it lets go of you.

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Perhaps if we spend time around positive people, being positive to one another, we can raise our common frequency as well as our individual wellbeing.

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I’d gotten myself thrown into, then out of a drama school – ironically for being too dramatic.

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I get prophetic flashes. There, I’ve said it.

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That’s why we call this process Recovery; we recover the ‘you’ that you were meant to be.

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I come from there, there where I never belonged.

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I suppose this is what I’m concerned about... is the appetite to turn natural behaviors into products and entertainment.

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Addicts are not enslaved by drugs, drugs serve as an escape from the false ideals of a materialistic society.

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That’s the problem with trying to be friends with Buddhists. They don’t get attached.

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Intention and attention, they say. Where your attention goes, so shall you become. As you intend to be, so shall you be.

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The world of politics is so corrupt that it automatically weeds out the well-intentioned, and anyone sincere will be subjected to pestilent mud-slinging.

— Russell Brand
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