Stephen Fry Quotes
I like people who are as unlike me as possible, which is not an expression of self disgust or self hatred, but it's just that you know you obviously particularly admire things that you recognize yourself as not having.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.
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I like PETA as a group for many reasons, but one of the reasons that I admire them is that they say and do the things that other groups won't do.
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It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.
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I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'
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I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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There's nothing wrong with showing sexuality. If you have that inside, it's just an expression of who you are. If you want to share that with people, that's amazing. I love that.
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'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
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The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
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I take jobs with people I admire, people with incredible talent who aren't necessarily big sellers.
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Get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine.
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Your words and wishes are cheap if they do not find expression in your actual gifts.
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The work of our missionaries is a magnificent expression of the Lord's redeeming love.
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An excellent precept for writers: Have a clear idea of all the phrases and expressions you need, and you will find them.
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Caring for others is an expression of what it means to be fully human.
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In later years I never put aside this kind of inquiry, that is, into the modes of thinking and representation embedded in a text, but I asked new questions about ways of writing and the forms and rituals of discourse. I began to look not only at what was stated or declared in a text, but also at what was suggested through expression, through performance.
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When people ask me which I would rather give up, writing or medicine, it's like being asked which eye I'd prefer to have poked out with a spoon: neither, and please use a fork.
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For the first time in my life, I have tasted life. Life is wonderful but very dangerous. If you have the courage to live it - it's marvelous!
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I like people who are as unlike me as possible, which is not an expression of self disgust or self hatred, but it's just that you know you obviously particularly admire things that you recognize yourself as not having.
