Russell Brand Quotes

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  Governments? I don’t trust any of them. They exist solely to defend the interest of the rich and powerful. They’re not there for you; you know that in your hearts.

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  Topics in Trust

  Tags in Governments, Hearts

• If love is something you cherish, it is hard to glean much joy from death, even in one’s enemies.

  Russell Brand

  Topics in Death

• Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn’t do.

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  Topics in Life

• Boggle with s*x addicts is up there with go-kart racing with junkies.

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  Topics in Inspirational

• 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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  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Successful

• As a performer, I’m very, very confident in what I do.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Confident, Performer

• Everyone has their own mantra.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Everyone, Mantra

• As a person… I’m a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person, Doubtful

• Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.

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  Topics in Honesty

  Tags in Operation

• I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Principles, Meditation

• I don’t know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

  Russell Brand

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Kind

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Language, Regard

• I also quite like to be recognized by children; I find it sweet.

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  Topics in Children

  Tags in Find

• I also do a lot of Kundalini yoga.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in yoga

• I’ve always had this impulse to be destructive.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Impulse

• I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can’t be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

  Russell Brand

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happy, Yourself

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Brain, Try

• I’ll not be changing, but America will.

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  Topics in America

  Tags in Changing

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nice, Spiritual

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Kind, Almost

Russell Brand (31)

Birth:	4th June, 1975
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Author, Columnist, Comedian, Singer

About

Russell Edward Brand is an English comedian, actor, radio and television presenter, singer, columnist, and author. In 2004, Brand achieved mainstream fame in the UK as the host of Big Brother's Big Mouth, a Big Brother spin-off. In 2007, he had his first major film role in St Trinian's.

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