Russell Brand's most thought-provoking quotes

Self-confidence - "No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it’s an artificial idea. Really, people aren’t that worried about what you’re doing or what you’re saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you."

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Moments of happiness - "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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The life you dream vs. the life you lead - "Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look."

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Having control over your life - "You can’t absolutely make everything the way you want it to be in life. Sometimes things are just different and then you to just move with that and try and remain in contact with what is beautiful about yourself and each other, with any situation."

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Having control over your actions - "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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Surrounding yourself with what you love - "Animals, children, and the working class comprise the company in which I’ll feel most at ease."

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Abstractness of feelings - "Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more – 'damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial'."

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To believe in your power - "I regret that I didn’t realise that actually they’ve got no power over you at school – it’s all just a trick to indoctrinate you into being a conditioned, tame, placid citizen. Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory."

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Be different, be you - "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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What life is not about - "Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death."

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Conventional boundaries - "I think many of the boundaries that convention has placed upon us are arbitrary, so we can fiddle with them if we fancy. Gravity’s hard to dispute, and breathing, but a lot of things we instinctively obey are a lot of old tosh."

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Different perspectives - "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 in alignment with the health and safety of us as individuals or as a planet."

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Love - "When you fall in love you recognise you’re not the most important person in the world, and your focus becomes another person."

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The meaning of "strength" - "Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud."

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Inner and outer beauty - "You’re all beautiful, both inside and out. You mustn’t worry about anything; nothing is important except finding love within yourself and being all honourable and glorious and beautiful. Take things dead slowly ’cause nothing you can attain externally has value, only that which is within yourself already is valuable."

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Penguins and racism - "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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The act of chewing gum - "Of all the consumer products, chewing gum is perhaps the most ridiculous: it literally has no nourishment – you just chew it to give yourself something to do with your stupid idiot Western mouth. Half the world is starving, and the other’s going, 'I don’t actually need any nutrition, but it would be good to masticate, just to keep my mind off things'."

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How to let yourself unwind - "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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Threesomes - "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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Having a reputation - "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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Everybody is different - "What I think, whilst human beings are diverse and different, ultimately – everyone knows what it is to be in love. Everyone knows what it is to find something funny. Everyone knows what it is to hate or to be jealous or feel insecure. We’re made from the same basic stuff: 30% of DNA the same as bananas, 60% the same as worms and 98% the same as chimpanzees, so we can’t be that different from each other."

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Old friends and new paths - "I missed him, of course, but sometimes close friendships have a tidal beat that pulls you towards different shores though the ocean that connects you remains."

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Self-enhancement - "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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Change the world - "I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards."

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The future -

"People don't realise that the future is just now, but later."

Sources: (Thought Catalog)

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Crossing the line - "Some people say that you’ve crossed the line, but I don’t think that there is a line, I think people draw the line in just after you have traversed it."

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About self-loathing - "Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage."

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Selfishness and happiness - "I recognise that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognise that you can’t be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people."

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