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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• Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in our brains that makes it hard to pull out of the anxious depressive spiral.

  

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• I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't.

  

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• Doing the press has become as much of a job as getting in front of the camera. You have to avoid burnout, avoid saying anything stupid, but still come across as yourself.

  

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• Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

  

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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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• I asked my grandmother how a Hungarian Jewish person can experience being Jewish. My grandmother answered was the only choice was to "keep quiet." I can understand her because she was a Holocaust survivor, and for her survival, she had to keep quiet. But I didn't obey my grandmother when I was a child, and in this case, I don't obey her either.

  

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• It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Reason
  • Stupid
  • Superstitious