Stephen Fry Quotes
There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.
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I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
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We should be open to a discussion on keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. I don't know how that manifests itself, but I'm looking to get elected president of the United States. I just want to let people know I have an open mind about how we might - how government might - interject itself in a lot of the problems we have.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
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I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.
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The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.
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There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.
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It's so inspiring to be around other people who have ideas you haven't thought of, and all of a sudden you're like, 'Wow! That's so amazing!' I definitely want everything I do to just get better and better.
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Having your stuff online - some people think of it as gimmicky, but in a way, it's one of the most pure forms of having your work judged.
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Europe can't take in huge masses of foreign people in an unlimited, uncontrolled manner.
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I don't know if people are born with a worldview or if their thinking is a product of their environment.
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By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.
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Austin is almost a million people, but it still feels like a relatively small town. Everybody knows each other. Or at least everyone in the filmmaking community.
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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.
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Things don't really impress me. Memories impress me. It's not the toys, it's the people.
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You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.
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What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.
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I don't do facials - I don't really enjoy people picking at my skin. I'd rather a dermatologist who's a doctor for that do that.
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When you're someone in the media, the good thing is, I guess, that you can reach a lot of people.
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There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's going to be over kind of real quick.
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Homosexuality in hip-hop is an extension of homosexuality in the black community. The black community is very, very conservative when it comes to homosexuality, and I don't mean conservative in the good way, like we're saving money. I mean very intolerant.
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The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
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If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
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There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.
