Stephen Fry Quotes
You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast cancer.
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When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
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I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.
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Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.
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I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
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I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.
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Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
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Of the web It's massively successful. It is trivially simple. Massively successful like karaoke - anybody can do it.
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The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people. Freedom of the press, too.
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born in babylonboth nonwhite and womanwhat did i see to be except myself?
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I always played games with my friends, but as I got older, my friends stopped playing.
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I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.
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I obey the Commandments, the sensible ones. Where they don’t know what they’re talking about I ignore them. I keep thinking about the story of the two old women in church listening to the priest discoursing on the dynamics of the married state. At the end of the sermon one turns to the other and says, 'I wish I knew as little about it as he does.'
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The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.
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Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.
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You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.
