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Russell Edward Brand (born 4 June 1975) is an English comedian, actor, radio host, author, and activist.

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Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful.

Avoid, Incensed, Mean, Rancid, Tides, Violence

Amy Winehouse - her surname's beginning to sound like a description of her liver.

Amy, Funny, Liver, Sound, Winehouse

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

Ideas, People, Feels, Examined, Watching

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.

Weed, Silly, Wine, Heroin, Brainbox

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

Towers, Language, Sitcom, Came, Regard

The happiest moments in our life aren't "Oh I got a new hat or a wonderful silvery object, some glistening bauble. " But it's when you connect with another human being. If you can find the $18 in your pocket, you are purchasing dreams with that money.

Dream, Happiest, Hats, Human, Object, Pockets

Socialism isn't a dirty word; it just means sharing. Really, it's just the bureaucratic arm of Christianity.

Arm, Arms, Bureaucratic, Dirty, Mean, Word

Everyone has their own mantra.

Everyone, Mantra, Mantras

We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy.

Consumerism, Knows, Continue, Spilled, Know

I don't get my authority from this preexisting paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people. I look elsewhere for alternatives that might be of service to humanity.

People, Humanity, Alternatives, Elsewhere, Paradigm

Marketing is all pervasive. They're getting marketed products they can't afford - can't ever hope to acquire. They believe the only way they're ever going to achieve happiness is the acquisition of these products. Products they can't afford. They see people living that lifestyle, and they have that lifestyle beamed incessantly into their minds through media, which you know I participate in.

Believe, Know, Marketed, Media, People, See

It's highly psychological, and very beautiful, and overwhelming, and real, and trippy!

Beautiful, Highly, Meditation, Real

Drugs and alcohol are not my problem — reality is my problem. Drugs and alcohol are my solution.

Alcohol, Drug, Drugs, Problem, Reality

God is in the mountains. Impassive, immovable, jagged giants, separating the celestial from the terrestrial with eternal diagonal certainty. As if silently monitoring the beating heart of the creator from the universe's perfect birth. Stood in the thin air and the awe, one inhales God, involuntarily acknowledging that we are but fragments of a whole, a higher thing. The mountains remind me of my place, as a servant to truth and wonder. Yes, God is in the mountains. Perhaps the pulpit too and even in the piety of an atheist's sigh. I don't know; but I feel him in the mountains.

Air, Atheist, Heart, Jagged, Silently, Wonder

Revolt in whatever way we want, with the spontaneity of the London rioters, with the certainty and willingness to die of religious fundamentalists or with the twinkling mischief of the trickster. . . Take to the streets, together, with the understanding that the feeling that you aren't being heard or seen or represented isn't psychosis; it's government policy.

Government, Psychosis, Religious, Rioters, Streets, Trickster

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?

Body, Drink, Funny, Time, Water

The only Revolution that can really change the world is the one in your own consciousness, and mine has already begun.

Begun, Change, Consciousness, Revolution, World

I think all of us are living in denial of our spiritual nature as we continue to participate in the material world even though we know we're destroying the planet we live on.

Continue, Denial, Living, Nature, Spiritual, Thinking

I've come off heroin twice, and the worst part is laying in bed kicking and not being able to keep still. The physical withdrawal doesn't last that long, but then it's just all psychological. I think it's worse than cigarettes.

Bed, Heroin, Long, Thinking, Worst

It doesn't matter how many pairs of shoes you have, how many cars you have, etc. . . . It's all utterly meaningless and yet we continue to pursue this. Why? Because they've learned they can stimulate our primal desires through selling us products.

Car, Cars, Desire, Etc, Selling, Shoes

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