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.
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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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ou have to put in the work to be ready for the next opportunity that comes to you … If you do the work, and you’re prepared when the opportunity comes to you, it’s all going to work out fine.
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However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.
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Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of conscious innocence which is the sequence to hope; then he began to doubt his own innocence, which justified in some measure the governor's belief in his mental alienation; and then, relaxing his sentiment of pride, he addressed his supplications, not to God, but to man. God is always the last resource. Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
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I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress.
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Would I be happy just practicing law? No. Would I be happy just doing TV and speeches? No. I want to do all of these things and be as active as I can... but my main goal is to have some degree of influence on the public discussion.
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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.
