Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the paradox of maintaining personal values amid self-destructive behavior.
Russell Brand's quote reflects the complexity of personal choices and values. Even while grappling with addiction, he remained committed to his vegetarianism, illustrating that one can hold onto certain beliefs or principles—even while engaging in conflicting behaviors. The term 'sexy little paradox' emphasizes the intrigue and irony of such a situation, hinting at the struggle between desires and personal ethics.
In practice
In a discussion about maintaining principles during challenging times.
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 inalignment with the health and safety of us as individuals or as a planet.
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'.
I've never had a sustained period of medication for mental illness when I've not been on other drugs as well. It's just not something that I particularly feel I need. I know that I have dramatically changing moods, and I know sometimes I feel really depressed, but I think that's just life. I don't think of it as, "Ah, this is mental illness," more as, "Today, life makes me feel very sad." I know I also get unnaturally high levels of energy and quickness of thought, but I'm able to utilize that.
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.
Im happy to be a part of the conversation, if more young people are talking about fracking instead of twerking were heading in the right direction. The people that govern us dont want an active population who are politically engaged, they want passive consumers distracted by the spectacle of which I accept I am a part.
When I was poor and I complained about inequality they said I was bitter. Now I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm starting to think they just don't want to talk about inequality.
God is a scientist, not a magician.
There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
I like flawed characters, and I like seeing people who are supposed to be not villains but antagonists. There are elements to them, which are really annoying, but you kind of see where they came from. You see the things that caused those inadequacies.
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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