Stephen Fry Quotes

Cynical is the name we give those we fear may be laughing at us.

Stephen Fry

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• I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Money
  • Business
  • Giving

• The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Free
  • Giving
  • Woman

• Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Giving
  • Freedom

• Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.

  

  Washed Out
  • Great
  • Giving
  • Ideas

• To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Giving
  • Me
  • Charity

• The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Love
  • Giving
  • Person

• Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Art

• I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.

  

  Sam Simon
  • People
  • Giving
  • Generosity

• I'm very fortunate to have been raised in my family. I learned early about the importance of giving back.

  

  Patrick Schwarzenegger
  • Family
  • Giving
  • Giving Back

• The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Art
  • Giving
  • Pleasure

• The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Work
  • Giving

• I remember watching myself on video and being so disappointed with myself because I was constantly moving around the place and laughing. I thought, 'I must be so much louder than I think I am. From inside it feels fine.'

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Moving
  • Laughing
  • Disappointed

• I’m just giving of my body on the stage and putting my life at risk, literally. ... And I think about it. I think about my family and I’m like, wow, this is like being a police officer or something, in war or something.

  

  Kanye West
  • Life
  • Family
  • War

• To all of you who served in Iraq, we saw your heroism in pushing out a dictator whose brutality must be condemned, never praised. In defeating an insurgency. In giving the Iraqi people a chance. And no matter what has happened since, your valor in the deserts, in fierce urban combat, will be honored in the annals of military history.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • History
  • Giving

• Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

  

  Fulton J. Sheen
  • Heart
  • Giving
  • Service

• In order to build anything from factories to schools to hospitals, one must jump through a series of regulatory hoops, giving EPA veto power over any major projects.

  

  Jim Inhofe
  • Power
  • Giving
  • Jump

• I'm a real bath addict. I could sit in a bath and soak for days on end, and you'll never see me again. It's my easiest, nicest thing. So if you're giving me something extra to do, an extra step to make bathtime last longer, then I'll do it.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Real
  • Giving

• Somebody's willingness to let me photograph them, and willingness to tell me a story, has nothing to do with the words I say. It all has to do with the energy I'm giving off, which hopefully is very genuine, very interested energy. It's just two people having a conversation in the street. I think that's where genuine content comes from.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • People
  • Giving
  • Words

• When I go into schools to speak, I am not giving a speech - it's really a one-man show. I call it 'didactic standup.'

  

  Bruce Coville
  • Giving

• For me, going home at 5:30 is as much about my own choices, but also giving my team those choices, too.

  

  Dave Goldberg
  • Home
  • Giving
  • Team

• When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I'm so happy I did a nice thing.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Happy

• To me, the big difference is when you yell cut and then you have to walk over there and deliver a note, it gives it much more import as opposed to "Hey, try that." It's just much more intimate, I think.

  

  Will Gluck
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Cutting

• Cynical is the name we give those we fear may be laughing at us.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Giving
  • Laughing
  • Cynical