Stephen Fry Quotes
Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.
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How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
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In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.
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No one knows what women want!
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
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You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.
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I don't know karate, but I know ka-razy!
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I dont play villainy. I wouldnt even know how to play it.
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I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.
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I always wanted to know what it felt like to fall on stage... now I know. It's not how you fall, but how you get up
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In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.
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Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.
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Why leave the nut you got for one you don't know?
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People know that I'm going to do what's right.
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The fly in her argument is that when she says, 'they' will feel like lemons, we don't know who 'they' are. And 'they' might BE lemons.
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Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by 'their happiness' is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone. That's not a bad thing.
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A truly good woman comes in only two types: One who knows nothing and the other who knows everything.
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Hold your own. Know your name. And go your own way. And everything will be fine.
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The more I know, the more I realise I don't know. And the more I realise I'll never truly understand.
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I like my anonymity - that when I meet people they don't know me.
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When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.
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Every once in a while when I get a migraine, I like to think, "Who hates me today?"
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In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
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People who have the courage to be individuals can usually think things through on their own and make sound decisions. They don't say, "What will people think?" They say, "What's the best way to handle this?" The amazing fact is that God created each one of us as a separate, unique person amid billions of other separate, unique individuals. So the best way to achieve real fulfillment is to be yourself.
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Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.
