Stephen Fry Quotes
No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.
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Whenever I went to a wedding or a party, girls kept complaining about their shoes. I love to dance, and I wanted them to have shoes they could keep on all night.
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I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.
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Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
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Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
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For me, for a very long time, I was in denial because when you say you're sad or you're overwhelmed, we consider it whining or complaining. People say, 'Count your blessings,' and it's like, 'Yeah, I am, but I'm still sad. Something is wrong with me.' I had to acknowledge it.
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Grown-ups do a lot of complaining!
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I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it.
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I enthuse about Scrivener to all of my friends. Some of them even listen to me and download it. This is often swiftly followed by an email complaining that it's all very confusing, and they'll stick to Microsoft Word, thanks.
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I'm not on Facebook. I'm not on Twitter. I know a lot of celebrities who go around complaining how little privacy they have. And then my question to that is always, 'Well, how much of yourself are you putting out there?'
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The public doesn't want to hear people complaining about having their picture taken.
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Just as I am working hard to adjust to a new level, someone comes along and asks me to move up again. I'm not complaining about it; I just get on with trying to make sure I don't let anyone down. Training with England is just a different gravy again. Movement-wise, finishing-wise, you can learn such a lot from watching the very best in action.
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Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
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I want to be more like Pixie Lott. She works really hard but always manages to keep smiling. She never complains.
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I wouldn't recommend working with your partner for everyone, because it's tough. There's got to be a really keen balance. You've got to know when to stop being the manager and become the husband. I can't go home and complain to my husband about my manager.
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
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I've done a lot of complaining here, but of all the things I've complained about, I can't complain about my life.
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We did not play. I don't know if we overlooked them, (but) there's no point in complaining about it. We deserved to lose. We should be going home and we will be going home in a couple of hours.
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What is a harp but an over-sized cheese-slicer with cultural pretensions?
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I only ask to go where the Lord would have me go, and only to receive what the Lord would have me receive, knowing that more important than sight is the witness that one may have by the witness of the Holy Ghost to his soul that things are so and that Jesus is the Christ, a living personage. Harold B. Lee
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Let students use technologies in the classroom.
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No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.
