Stephen Fry Quotes
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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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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I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'
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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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II n'y a que les pauvres gens qui payent comptant. Ce n'est pas par vertu; c'est parce qu'on ne leur fait pas crédit.
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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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There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.
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I don't want to be entertained. I don't want visuals or musicals. I don't want a vacation. I don't want to quit. I don't want sympathy. The cry of my heart is 'Just Give Me Jesus.'
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Follow your passion. Do what you love, and the money will follow. Most people don't believe it, but it's true.
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Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.
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I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
