"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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Russell Brand quotes (page 7 of 10)
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"Over the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of church bells. Strange it was. Why no proper bells? I never went in but I bet it was a robot church for androids, where the Bible was in binary and their Jesus had laser eyes and metal claws."
"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"
"The best thing you can do is fall in love. My life has been changed by falling in love."
"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'."
"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?"
"Don't listen to me. I'm a maniac, but the voice in your head, ask it "Is it right to kill 200 million animals simply for fun?". What did it say? Right. There you go."
"Fear travels fast. Love travels a little more slowly. Rationale takes a little more consideration."
"I struggle in these situations not to let my madness govern me, and to let the positive aspects of my character define my life."
"A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo."
"All we can do is adapt the way we view this condition, not as a crime or a romantic affectation but as a disease that will kill. We need to review the way society treats addicts, not as criminals but as sick people in need of care."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character wasn't a duckling or he wouldn't have grown up into a swan. He was a cygnet."
"The economy is just a metaphorical device, it’s not real. That's why it's got the word con in it."
"Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction."
"The more people who have access to this vital information the better society will be."
"As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do."
"A buddy of mine was addicted to heroin and he told me that people who say quitting cigarettes is harder than quitting heroin are wrong."