Top 280 Russell Brand Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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.”

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252. “Nigel Farage and Sean Hannity is like a super group of idiots.”

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253. “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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254. “In the US, the 400 richest people have as much as 185 million people, over 60 per cent of the population.”

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255. “I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like ‘Fawlty Towers.’”

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256. “We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful.”

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257. “I cannot control the past but I can control the present through forgiveness.”

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258. “In the United States, 95 per cent of income gains since the recession began have gone to the top 0.01 per cent.”

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259. “The instinct that drives compulsion is universal. It is an attempt to solve the problem of disconnection, alienation, tepid despair... the problem is ultimately ‘being human’ in an environment that is curiously ill-equipped to deal with the challenges that entails.”

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260. “From the minute I clattered – belatedly – into puberty, I was on a spree of hopeless, doomed romances.”

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261. “If you feel that we live in a time that is defined by mean ugliness and ugly meaningless, then invite beauty and power into your life. Become willing to be taught, to connect to the invisible thread that runs between us all and that runs throughout all time, binding the empty space and filling it with love.”

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262. “Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can change. After all it changes constantly and incessantly, it’s just the perceptions that we have are governed by people with self-interest and are not inalignment with the health and safety of us as individuals or as a planet.”

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263. “A life of bucolic wonder can become Apocalypse Now inside my mind. Even in my idyllic life with my dog Bear. Bear is enthusiasm with claws. We have a rowboat and I heap Bear in. The river is so alive with light and dark. On the surface light dances like spilt heaven and if you put your feet in, the sludge and slime feels like the ooze that we crawled out of. The whole spectrum is there, the river is the whole road, the beginning, the end, ever changing, ever present.”

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264. “I have been raised an individualist; the recipe: doting mother, absent father, no siblings, highly alert, low self-esteem – an off-the-shelf cake mix for narcissists, dictators, kooks and crooks.”

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265. “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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266. “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.”

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267. “Rituals are missing nowadays.”

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

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269. “It was unfamiliar to me – girls being flirtatious – and initially I was frightened.”

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270. “America employs more private security guards than high school teachers.”

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271. “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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272. “Then, of course, through the umbilical link we all tumble backwards down the spiralling DNA staircase to one common ancestor in Africa, and before that some bunch of curious monkeys. Down and down we go unto the sea, unto the dust, the single cellular dust. What impulse drove one cell to become two? What yearning pulled the fish on to the land? What caused apes to walk upright? Some invisible magnetic pull. Is there a difference between attraction and intention? Where is evolution taking us?”

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

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274. “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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275. “Long live the Queen, God Bless America. Ta.”

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276. “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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277. “I sought sanctuary in the twilight cemeteries entombed in strangers’ limbs.”

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278. “I get prophetic flashes. There, I’ve said it.”

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279. “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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280. “If a conservative is a mugged liberal, a dad is a knackered Jesus.”

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281. “So we are not discussing whether or not debt cancellation is a possibility; we know it is, we’ve seen it, they’ve done it. All we are discussing is who it is possible for. Them or us. I’ve just typed myself into a revolutionary fervor again. Every so often the fury at injustice rises up in me and makes me want to smash something or burn something, but nothing in my immediate environment belongs to me so I have to refrain.”

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

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283. “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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284. “I am not dealing with the total of this man. Is one ever dealing with a total person?”

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285. “This is complicated only in that most of us are quite divided, usually part of us wants to change a negative and punishing behaviour, whereas another part wants to hold on to it.”

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

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287. “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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288. “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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289. “Death grip, by the way, is the literal translation of the word “mortgage.”

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

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

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