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59 Superb Russell Brand Quotes to Manifest Spiritual Humour
If you mixed the comedy of Trevor Noah and the spiritual views of Eric Butterworth, you’d get the thought-provoking Russell Brand. This comedian has his fair share of opinions, critics and fanatics alike.
Now, he’s not the type we typically feature on Execute Resources, however, we all need to tap more into our spiritual side. If you’re tired of taking things so seriously, then this list of quotes is for you!
1. Question all information when you receive it.
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2. If we don’t want our young people to tear apart our communities then don’t let people in power tear apart the values that hold our communities together.
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3. My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.
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4. 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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5. Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.
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6. Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look.
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7. If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might be because they aren’t looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren’t looking within.
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8. 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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9. 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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10. Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.
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12. As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion.
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13. I know that’s the sort of thing people say and I really hate it when people say the sort of things people say. I always think, ‘You don’t mean that, you just think it sounds good.
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14. 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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15. How we treat the vulnerable is how we define ourselves as a species.
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16. Boggle with sex addicts is up there with go-kart racing with junkies.
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17. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you.
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18. The more that I’ve detached myself from the things that I thought would make me happy like money and fame and other people’s opinions, the more truth is being revealed.
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19. People that say the system works, work for the system.
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20. 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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21. 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.
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22. We all place ourselves in danger to one degree or another when we stand up, but we place our children and grandchildren in even greater danger when we don’t.
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23. Obviously, I don’t vote. As I believe democracy is a pointless spectacle where we choose between two indistinguishable political parties, neither of whom represent the people, but the interests of powerful business elites that run the world.
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24. I’ve always had this impulse to be destructive.
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25. As a person, I’m more doubtful, introspective and analytical.
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26. Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn’t do.
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27. The right to free speech is important but isn’t as important as we’re all humans beings together, let’s find solutions together’.
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28. Murderers! Stop murdering. Everyone will die eventually. Just sit down and be patient
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29. Sometimes close friendships have a tidal beat that pulls you towards different shores, through the ocean that connects you remains.
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30. If you can be free from pride, self-pity, self-centered-ness, 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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31. If you have no brothers and sisters it defines you for life; even when you’re thirty you refer to yourself as an only child.
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32. The apathy doesn’t come from us, the people, the apathy comes from the politicians; they are apathetic to our needs. They are only interested in servicing the needs of corporations. The planet is being destroyed, we are creating an underclass, exploiting poor people all over the world, and the genuine legitimate problems of the world are not being addressed by our political parties.
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33. The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics are wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope.
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34. By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded
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35. Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.
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36. If love is something you cherish, it is hard to glean much joy from death, even in one’s enemies.
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37. I know change is possible, I know there is an alternative because I live a completely different life to the one I was born with. I also know that the solution is not fame or money or any transient adornment of the individual. The only revolution that can really change the world is the one in your own consciousness, and mine has already begun.
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38. We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.
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39. I didn’t cross the line, you drew it in after I traversed it.
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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. Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction.
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42. If you don’t choose your own 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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43. 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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44. If you’ve got any concern at all about animal welfare, you’ve got to not eat meat.
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45. It’s difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.
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46. I’m buying things for people I don’t even know. I’m like Willy Wonka.
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47. A small minority cannot control an uncooperative majority, so they must be distracted, divided, tyrannized, or anesthetized into compliance.
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48. Addiction is a serious disease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death.
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49. I couldn’t possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!
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50. 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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51. Fear travels fast. Love travels a little more slowly. Rationale takes a little more consideration.
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52. We have been told that freedom is the ability to pursue petty, trivial desires when true freedom is freedom from these petty, trivial desires.
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53. Love is the one thing we’re capable of perceiving that transcends time and space.
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54. Animals, children, and the working class comprise the company in which I’ll feel most at ease.
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55. My life is just a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents
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56. I struggle in these situations not to let my madness govern me, and to let the positive aspects of my character define my life.
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57. Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.
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58. For me, happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all at once you fall in love; or a frozen second in a park where it’s enough that there are trees in the world.
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59. As a performer, I’m very, very confident in what I do.
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