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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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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But, I'm kind of a control freak. I get really freaked out if I don't know what's going on and what's going to happen.
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Everyone wants to know about the gold ring. Everyone knows already - it's ridiculous.
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We cannot embrace His cross, and yet refuse our own. We cannot raise the cup of His remembrance to our lips, without a secret pledge to Him, to one another, to the great company of the faithful in every age that we, too, hold ourselves at God's disposal, that we will ask nothing on our own account, that we will pass simply into the Divine hand to take us whither it will.
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So, will his new gun laws - aimed primarily at law-abiding firearms owners - reduce the crime rate even further? Rock is hesitant to give a conclusive answer: "I think it will help. (But) I don't want to overstate it. I don't want to give any guarantees."
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The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration.
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Things never go the way you expect them to. That's both the joy and frustration in life. I'm finding as I get older that I don't mind, though. It's the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don't see coming.
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Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.
