Stephen Fry Quotes
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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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.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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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.
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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.
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This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.
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I have a noble body. It adapts to all I ask of it.
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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.
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Some of my favorite memories happened in the 'Boy Meets World' classroom.
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I'd been horse-riding a couple of times, but I wasn't that good.
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I personally approve all the shoes that go into production, and I have a level of involvement with the factories that other people don't have.
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The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
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It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.
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I didn't realize people tip for take-out.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
