Stephen Fry Quotes

My parents were marvelously educated people.

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• My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.

  

  T. J. Perkins
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• I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
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• I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.

  

  Ikue Mori
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• Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

  

  A. A. Milne
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• Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• My parents were both born in Birmingham, Alabama, and come from large Catholic families with lots of Michaels, Marks, and Patricks, so they wanted to choose two names that I don't think you could find anywhere else in the family tree: Haley and Joel.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
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• I have a noble body. It adapts to all I ask of it.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
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• The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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• To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• Like some magistrate grown gray in office,Calmly he contemplates alike the justAnd unjust, with indifference he notesEvil and good, and knows not wrath nor pity.

  

  Alexander Pushkin
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• I would like to leave the world a better place than when I entered it. I would hope that by the time I die I could have learned from the years of living and hand something down.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Time
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• I had a lot of respect for Biggie, and it was just a weird, kinda difficult thing. When I'm doing touchy interviews like that, I just try to be fair to both parties.

  

  Angie Martinez
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• Some of my favorite memories happened in the 'Boy Meets World' classroom.

  

  Danielle Fishel
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• I'd been horse-riding a couple of times, but I wasn't that good.

  

  Craig Horner
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• Silence is absorption, and when you're watching a film and you're that quiet and you're that still, at least from my experience of watching films, that indicates an absorption, where you're really in the moment. You're really present. What you're seeing is vital to you in that moment, and it's tingling, and it's alive, and it matters.

  

  Bennett Miller
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• I'm syndicated on the radio - my show is called 'The Sweat Hotel.'

  

  Keith Sweat

• You can't hang around geniuses forever because they end up taking everything you've got. That's why they're the genius and you're not.

  

  Bob Colacello
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• When I'm working, I always read stuff that's as far away from what I'm working on as possible, so I'll read American crime fiction at bedtime, or Emily Dickinson.

  

  Mal Peet
  • American
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  • Crime

• When you think of things like medicine, people who have lost limbs now have a chance to have a limb replaced that is connected to the brain that they can actually control with their mind. That's amazing.

  

  Gemma Chan
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• My parents were marvelously educated people.

  

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