Stephen Fry Quotes
You can never hope to recapture the first fine careless rapture as the poet put it, but it stays with you like a good acid trip.
Quotes to Explore
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Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.
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I can't do it every day. They're not going to give me much to hit right now. They're pitching me real well. If I get there, fine.
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'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies – they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.
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The purest joy for the human spirit and the sheerest delight for man's heart are the rapture of the spirit contained within the love of God.
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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
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I love the way I look. I'm fine with it. And if my body changes, I'll be fine with that.
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Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country.
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That's another fine mess you've gotten me into.
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I'm fine with being a little bit of an instigator.
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To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
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I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.
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The American nation in the sixth ward is a fine people; they love the eagle - on the back of a dollar.
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We're playing like we are capable of playing. If we can continue to play like this we'll be fine.
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Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from the darkest depth of spiritual despondency.
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Hold your own. Know your name. And go your own way. And everything will be fine.
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I know that life, I've done all those things, and I can still tell you that just being you is perfectly fine.
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I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.
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I'm the kind of person where you're never done, you just keep perfecting and perfecting and perfecting, or trying to fix things that drive you crazy. Often times when you watch a film, "if I could just get through this minute, I'll be fine." So I think I'm just hard on myself.
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The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.
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Saddam has a chance and he has to take it.
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Then I'd crawl back into bed, smelling her all around me, and tell myself that next time, I would lock that window. But I never did.
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You can never hope to recapture the first fine careless rapture as the poet put it, but it stays with you like a good acid trip.
