Stephen Fry Quotes

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• All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Ends
  • Bring
  • Reckoning

• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Tell
  • Whatever

• You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Isolation

• I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Work
  • Real
  • Movie

• It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Up
  • Good
  • Kids

• The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Choice

• I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Devil
  • Scandal
  • Boardwalk Empire

• In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.

  

  Edgar Meyer
  • Me
  • Honesty
  • Embarrassment

• Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Place
  • Race
  • Group

• My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Funny
  • Point
  • I Can

• Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Art
  • Community

• I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Children
  • Grandchildren

• As a senator from the only true swing district in the Texas Senate, I've been targeted by the GOP for my outspoken criticism of their extremist attacks on public education and voting rights, to name just two examples.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • True
  • Education
  • Criticism

• Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Find

• I never thought about being famous.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Famous

• My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Looks
  • Bored
  • Face

• Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environment is a fashionable accessory, for DiCaprio it is a thread that runs through everything he does.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Environment
  • Everything

• A lot of times with novels, you can get a really deep, engaging story, but there's not a lot happening, frankly. Those books tend to be super-literary and dense, and they require a lot of commitment, and that's not necessarily a bad thing, but if you want fast-moving action and gore and plot and excitement, you can get shorted on that.

  

  Caitlin Kittredge
  • Bad
  • Action
  • Moving

• I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year in the world has stopped growing since 1990. The total number of children below 15 years of age in the world are now relatively stable around 2 billion.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Children
  • Age

• If someone says, 'Hey man, I love your album, it really got me through a breakup, but I downloaded it for free,' I'll be like, 'Good! That's good!' Maybe he didn't have the money for the album, but if he still listened to it, and it's an important part of his life, that's all I can ask for. I don't want his twenty bucks.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.

  

  Lydia Millet
  • Culture
  • Marriage
  • Romantic

• There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • World