Stephen Fry Quotes

A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.

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• My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.

  

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• At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

  

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• In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different.

  

  Gary Jennings
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• For me a day without training is like a day without eating.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
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• We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

  

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• We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.

  

  Harold Ramis
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• People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.

  

  Maceo Parker
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• I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I like to get in that truck and go up in the hills near where I live, in Vegas, and take my camera. That, to me, is Heaven, being out in nature, taking pictures of the wildlife.

  

  B. B. King
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• Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
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• When I went to Australia, I had this feeling, like, 'Wow, this is really a different country.' I think that feeling of genuine foreignness, that this is a very different culture, which is increasingly rare in our globalised world.

  

  Naomi Klein
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• It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.

  

  Ralph Baer
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• It's really no different for me 'cause I work for BET so it's like the writers are always on strike.

  

  D. L. Hughley
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• Heaven’s Sovereign saves all beings but himselfThat hideous sight,-a naked human heart.

  

  Edward Young
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• Fundamentalism takes different forms in different religions, but there is one striking similarity in all forms of fundamentalist thought. Each wishes dearly to hold in check all varieties of 'modern' or 'decadent' thinking.

  

  Jay Parini
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• I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training.

  

  Deborah Bull
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• I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
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• The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea.

  

  Genevieve Gorder
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• I've always tried to stay fit, but I'm a little guy. I'm 5-foot-7.

  

  David Eigenberg
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• I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

  

  Jill Scott
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• I find drug use disrespectful, self-destructive, and weak. I want no part of it.

  

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• When 'Deadwood' came along, it was totally like Shakespeare. The long speeches were like soliloquies. If one phrase of a monologue was out of whack, the entire one-page speech didn't work.

  

  Powers Boothe
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• A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Different
  • Heaven
  • Training