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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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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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.
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They teach you how to handle life in England, but they don’t teach you a thing about death. There’s no book telling you what to do when your mum or dad dies.
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It seems to me that the students are now half-awake enough to try and wake up their brother workers. If you don't pass on your own awareness then it closes down again.
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I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
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I think you have to want to be really famous. It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.
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Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.
