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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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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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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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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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.
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I'm syndicated on the radio - my show is called 'The Sweat Hotel.'
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In Paris we have bistros, then we have fine dining. In London, you have a very contemporary scene with mixed influences.
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The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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Stand-up is still my favorite, but the podcast is a close second. It's so fun, and it's given me the opportunity to have three-hour conversations with people I wouldn't have otherwise been able to talk to. When I talked to Maynard Keenan from Tool, I almost couldn't believe it was happening.
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Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn't an MP3.
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I belong to the Democratic Party.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
