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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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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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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Aereo is the first potentially transformative technology that has the chance to give people access to broadcast television delivered over the Internet to any device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere there's an Internet connection in the world - truly a revolutionary product.
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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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But whether we want to do it because we want to have people to have a different idea of who we are or not, we do it naturally. So the way we construct our narrative is different from the way we constructed it a year ago. The difference is maybe very small or it may be huge.
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The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.
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Sheryl Crow. I loved her 'Tuesday Night Music Club.' She expressed her own point of view, and she wasn't trying to be like anyone else, and I loved that. That's been the thinking of all my favorite artists.
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The secret to longevity in the music business is to change, and to be able to change. [...] An actor has to assume other people's identities. A rock star doesn't need to do that. [...] But change is important.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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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.
