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 do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.
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It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans in social media than it is to communicate complex policies.
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I don't want my dad to say, 'My daughter is an actress on a TV show.' I want him to say, 'My daughter cares about people.' I would love to know that I'm a role model in Hollywood.
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The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
