439 Quotes by Russell Brand

Don’t make excuses for your behaviour’ and ‘Let them speak’ would’ve made a world of difference.

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.

I don’t like to be in delineated moments. I don’t like it when your reality feels prescriptive. I don’t like Christmas holidays and their pseudo-joy. I don’t like New Year’s Eve. I don’t like anything that feels like an established electromagnetic paradigm is pulling you into it’s cliched forebear’s footsteps.

I don’t mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have.

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.

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

The right to free speech is important but it isn’t as important as ‘we’re all human beings together, let’s find solutions together.’

Christ as a reminder that we must all constantly die and be born again, moment to moment, to live forever in the now, if as Wittgenstein says, “eternity is taken not to be an infinite temporal duration but the quality of timelessness, then are we not all eternal if we live in the present.

I’ll not be changing, but America will.