Stephen Fry Quotes
You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
Quotes to Explore
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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I hate jeans for no reason.
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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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A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.
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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 reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.
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The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.
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I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.
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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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As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.
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Sometimes friends move apart from each other for whatever reason.
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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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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
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Every single note on this album is there for a reason.
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I come here to be coach of Manchester City and train these players. That's the reason I am here.
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As children my grandparents were refugees. Eventually they got to the U.S. - in 1950 or something. They grew up as refugees. Their earliest memories are of living in a home with their family. It's in my blood, I guess, to have a fear about encouraging fascism.
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If you want to talk, you should try being a vacuum cleaner salesman. I only want footballers.
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You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
