Stephen Fry Quotes

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

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• Setting a tone of inclusiveness and ensuring protection for all begins at the top, whether from the White House or the State House.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • House
  • White
  • Protection

• After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Critics
  • Others
  • Rather

• You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the game, I got something from the way he played the game because he hustled every play, and just because he had one mistake in his life, am I supposed to throw back everything that I gained from him?

  

  Walter Payton
  • Life
  • Game
  • Mistake

• The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Different
  • Live

• Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Humanity
  • Our
  • Egoism

• Indeed, many of life's most fun and pleasurable choices come with potential dangers. It's important for my son to grow up recognizing that what might appear exciting or inviting at first glance could also have eventual negative consequences.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Sin
  • Lie
  • Tools

• We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.

  

  Bartlett Sher
  • Culture
  • Small
  • Support

• I have the right to protect myself. I feel like I have very good aim. My wife is better.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Good
  • Wife
  • Myself

• I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Good
  • Think
  • Said

• Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Become
  • Complicated
  • IRS

• Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Class
  • Birth
  • Determined

• If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Down
  • Run
  • Truck

• I want to play Eva Peron. I've already done a lot of Shakespeare, but I'd like to do Lady Macbeth.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Done
  • Want
  • Like

• Cursing is highly effective in person - someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he's wearing flip-flops, flames pour from his mouth, and it's impressive. But you see it in print, and it's just ugly.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Car
  • See
  • Ugly

• A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • People
  • Teacher
  • Matter

• I've never written anything that I haven't wanted to write again. I want to, and still am, writing 'A Few Good Men' again. I didn't know what I was doing then, and I'm still trying to get it right. I would write 'The Social Network' again if they would let me, I'd write 'Moneyball' again. I would write 'The West Wing' again.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Men
  • Writing

• Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Beautiful
  • Amazing
  • Ocean

• All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Live
  • Suffering
  • Teach

• Number one, from a tackling standpoint, we teach strike zone hits, and we want to hit absolutely as hard as we can in that strike zone, and that's absolutely what we call a batter in the batters box from the chest all the way down to the knees.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Want
  • Teach
  • Down

• Americans long to be united. After 9/11, we all just wanted to be one nation. Not a single American on September the 12, 2001, cared who won the next presidential election.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Nation
  • Election
  • Americans

• The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness. That isn't what they would describe what they're doing, but the fact is they make a virtue of the sort of hand-made nature of what they're doing.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Nature
  • Virtue
  • Sloppiness

• ...Promises are more dangerous then secrets.

  

  Aimee Friedman
  • Dangerous
  • Secrets
  • Promises

• Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

  

  Stephen Fry
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