Stephen Fry Quotes
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.
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I'm not cynical.
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So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.
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The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.
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One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.
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There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
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When I was around nine, my parents took me to my first live event, which was a WWE show with Ultimate Warrior. From then on, I loved it.
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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
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As for memes, the word 'meme' is a cliche, which is to say it's already a meme. We all hear it all the time, and maybe we even have started to use it in ordinary speech. The man who invented it was Richard Dawkins, who was, not coincidentally, an evolutionary biologist. And he invented it as an analog for the gene.
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We choose mania over boredom every time.
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I went from unknown to having no anonymity.
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As far as I know, the original 'X-Men' actors will remain in the franchise.
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I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer from that. I would rather sacrifice my own narrative in the exercise of writing a biography. So I'm not worried about whether I'm clever.
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I'm going straight home after the tour. I'll probably need therapy and counselling after this. Expect a solo album in 2008.
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I started to understand what the song could be about. The ache of nostalgia even for things we don't like, the commitment to keep moving despite that ache. It made me think of how I relate to my privilege - as a white person, as someone who grew up upper middle class.
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A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It's like singing a hymn in a church.
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History is a science, no more and no less.
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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
