Stephen Fry Quotes
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Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.
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The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.
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My parents are so cool, so chill, super hip. They know what's up.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
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I only go to yoga to drink wine, so I'm good. I just throw the calories right back in.
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We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
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America's a faith-based experiment as a country. We should celebrate and invite faith. And our motto is, 'In God We Trust.' This isn't something that divides; this is something that pulls together and lifts us up.
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I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on.
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One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
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Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that, 'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy, We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.
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All ages are equidistant from eternity, and just as immediately accessible to God's presence.
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
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I started working when I was three years old and was basically known before I knew who my own name was. My parents needed money, so at that time it became my responsibility to pay the bills.
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We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.
