Stephen Fry Quotes

I think people talk about one love, but there is the need to love and the need to be loved are not the same thing and I suppose that's... and it's working that out is part of growing up.

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• When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Life
  • Time
  • History

• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Growing
  • Matter
  • Grandfather

• Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Children
  • Growing
  • See

• I'm not sure why I still think of myself as 28 - maybe that's the point where you start growing up, and then you just feel the same for evermore.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Up
  • Why
  • Growing

• We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Up
  • Time
  • Money

• You need to be growing and getting better, and in L.A., it's so hard to get bookings. You literally have to pay clubs to book you. It's pay to play, and then you only get 30 minutes. That's no way to get good.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Good
  • Book
  • Growing

• Sometimes it feels like I've been in the business forever, but then other times, it feels like kind of a flash. Growing up, all I wanted to do was sing. All I wanted to do was get on a bus and ride around the country and sing for people and be a household name.

  

  Josh Turner
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I talked to Marvel about 'Thor' at one point, but I didn't want to do Thor. It wasn't something I read growing up, really; it wasn't one of the books I loved.

  

  Louis Leterrier
  • Up
  • Growing

• Family is funny, and so it was not an unnatural thing for me, growing up, not to know anything about my dad or about the Vance side of our family.

  

  Courtney B. Vance
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  • Family
  • Growing

• As a post-Holocaust kid, growing up in a neighborhood with a lot of Jewish refugees, I had got the idea there were no Jews left in Europe. But I found in my European wanderings that many of them had gone back and rebuilt their lives.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Holocaust

• In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option.

  

  Douglas Alexander
  • World
  • Age
  • Growing

• Growing up in the Midwest, people don't drive Porsches and Ferraris. They drive Fords and Chevys. And so even if you have the opportunity to buy a more expensive car, it doesn't occur to you because it's not what you relate to.

  

  Luke Perry
  • People
  • Up
  • Opportunity

• Growing up near Scarsdale, I should have had at least one Jewish girlfriend. Maybe at some point it'll happen.

  

  Ato Essandoh
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Girlfriend

• I like to challenge myself. I like to learn - so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.

  

  David Schwimmer
  • Growing
  • Challenge

• I ended up writing songs and growing up in public with my songwriting. And it's a good thing for me back then: in the early '70s, there was a thing called artist development, where an artist could find his feet, find himself, find his voice. I think I made five or six albums before I sold five or six albums.

  

  John Mellencamp
  • Up
  • Good
  • Writing

• I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

  

  Lionel Hampton
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Learning

• Any swagger is just defense. When you're reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up - you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance.

  

  Peter Dinklage
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• Often I think bullying - especially in its adult, verbal forms - is the sort of thing you don't realize till the end of the day, and it's a horrible feeling to realize something wasn't just a bland statement, but was actually cruel. But then we're all capable of - of things that are breathtakingly cruel.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Feeling
  • Bullying

• This face is nothing to brag about. I don't know what it is that these people see in my face.

  

  Dennis Farina
  • People

• I work out on almost a daily basis wherever I am, but yoga brings into that equation something that is ideal for me to maintain a physical and emotional and mental kind of balance, and to stay healthy - I see it as a way of investing in my future.

  

  Queen Noor of Jordan
  • Work
  • Future
  • Emotional

• Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patriot Act have been used by law enforcement to stop more than 400 terrorist threats to our families and communities.

  

  Jim Gerlach
  • Law
  • Stop
  • September

• I'm not fussy about my food.

  

  Jonathan Franzen
  • Food

• I think people talk about one love, but there is the need to love and the need to be loved are not the same thing and I suppose that's... and it's working that out is part of growing up.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Growing
  • Needs