Stephen Fry Quotes

I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.

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• I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

  

  Natalie Maines
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• It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
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• My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time.

  

  Parminder Nagra
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• I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.

  

  Aaron Patzer
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• There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

  

  Barack Obama
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• Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.

  

  Gal Gadot
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• African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

  

  H. Rap Brown
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• So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
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• A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in sense slowly year by year. Once it meant an Arabian. There was a country called Arabia; but this was nothing to the point.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
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• We've never made progress in this country or in this state by lowering expectations.

  

  Maggie Hassan
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• I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
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• Regardless of who you are, I believe that everybody in this country is entitled to justice.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
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• I'm going to do anything I can do - whether that's being part of FIFA or creating some sort of movement that can actually impart real equality across all lines - in every country, every city, every sector all over the world, that's what I'm going to do.

  

  Abby Wambach
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• I have never let down Italy, and I never will. I love my country, and I owe a lot to my country, and in that sense, whatever I can and will be able to do for my country, I will do.

  

  Lapo Elkann
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• A chief of station is the head of all intelligence operations in any given country.

  

  Valerie Plame
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• By bringing about a rational drug policy, we'd be freeing up a lot of resources for real crime. Drug disputes would get played out with courts rather than with guns. So it would make this country a much better place overnight.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a Somali problem. We have poverty and deprivation in our own country. Try standing unarmed on a street corner in Compton handing out twenty-dollar bills and see how long you last.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I've been a Democrat my whole life. That's what makes Maude and Dorothy so believable, we have the same viewpoints on how our country should be handled.

  

  Bea Arthur
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• I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman.

  

  Jennifer Granholm

• The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.

  

  Charles Dickens
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• Chick-fil-A is not welcome in New York City as long as the company's president continues to uphold and promote his discriminatory views.

  

  Christine Quinn
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• I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.

  

  Stephen Fry
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