Stephen Fry Quotes
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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.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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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?
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
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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.
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We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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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.
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I have the right to protect myself. I feel like I have very good aim. My wife is better.
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I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
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Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!
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Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.
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If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.
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My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.
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I want to play Eva Peron. I've already done a lot of Shakespeare, but I'd like to do Lady Macbeth.
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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.
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A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
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The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.
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The tragedy of journalism lies in its impermanence; the very topicality which gives it brilliance condemns it to an early death. Too often it is a process of flinging bright balloons in the path of the hurricane, a casting of priceless petals upon the rushing surface of a stream.
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Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is self-sacrifice.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.
