Stephen Fry Quotes
It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid.
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For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
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The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.
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After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.
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I think stupid people are surprised that I'm Australian. It's a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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My good ideas are shy. But if they see that I treat the stupid ideas with respect, they come forward.
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Sometimes friends move apart from each other for whatever reason.
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You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.
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No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
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The people of your world became so stupid and rude that my companions and I no longer enjoyed teaching them. You must surely have heard of us: we were called oracles, nymphs, spirits, fairies, household gods, lemures, larvas, lamias, sprites, water-nymphs, incubi, shades, spirits of the dead, specters and ghosts.
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A lot of improvisers mistakenly assume stand-up is awful, because there are a lot of stand-ups in the world that did not appeal to me. It was so easy to make a blanket statement when I was improvising only: 'Stand-up's terrible.' It's so ignorant and stupid to do that. But it's easy to do that. So that's where I came from.
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I think the wall is stupid; it's a waste of the taxpayer's money. We need the money for job growth, infrastructure, 100 other things... it sends a bad message.
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I wore a thong and a bra and a wig. Those things hurt. I mean, thongs? Like, they dig in. It takes a tough man to be a woman.
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Woman is the masterpiece.
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The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.
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It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid.
