Stephen Fry Quotes
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Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
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Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students.
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The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful.
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To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore.
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Just because you become a mother, it doesn't mean you lose who you are.
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We lose all that time which we might employ better.
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One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.
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If somebody had told me my method would not work I nevertheless would have tried it out to make sure for myself, for when I am wrong only one thing convinces me of it, and that is, to lose money. And I am only right when I make money. That is speculating.
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I don’t have to win. I just have to make you lose.
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Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
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[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other.
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He who hoards much loses much.
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I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'
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Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.
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I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.
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It's all fun and games 'till someone loses an eye, then it's just fun you can't see.
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I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that I possess; and as He could not desire to deceive me, it is clear that He has not given me a faculty that will lead me to err if I use it aright.
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I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes it up. But in fiction the real details give you so much more credibility, because people do so much research just to write fiction. In fiction you're trying to recreate something lifelike.
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I was on the playground all night. I ain't never go to parties or nothing. I'd get out of school at 3 and be out there playing until one in the morning with one streetlight. For real.
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Normal birth to me should not be numb from the waist down and waiting for the doctor to tell you to push. There's a reason we feel it. There's a reason we need to feel it.
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The argument that women who become pregnant have in some sense consented to the pregnancy belies realityand others who are the inevitable losers in the contraceptive lottery no more 'consent' to pregnancy than pedestrians 'consent' to being struck by drunk drivers.'
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
