Stephen Fry Quotes
It is astonishing how articulate one can become when alone and raving at a radio. Arguments and counter arguments, rhetoric and bombast flow from one's lips like scurf from the hair of a bank manager.
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I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
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I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
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My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.
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Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls.
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Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.
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When I see Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk, it's only a picture. My imagination has to do some of the work there, to impute feeling and everything. We're talking about something that's so surreal, it's just not possible within the world as we know it. So that requires a form that is not so literal.
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I have carried bills concerning Sudan. I've carried bills concerning Congo. I've carried bills concerning North Korea and Iran and Iraq.
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I'm actual thankful for the amount of responsibility that has been handed to me. I feel very honored.
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I just choose the scripts I want to work on. I don't know why. It's not something conscious or that I'm doing on purpose.
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There is enough going on in Olympic year without having to do my own cooking and washing.
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It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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Even though they are such fantastical characters and situations, it's still a man trying to figure it out. These motifs of messiahs and heroes and anti-heroes, these journeys are things that we deal with in our day to day.
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So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.
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The more things you do, the more things you can do.
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Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
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Like so many before him who have ruined countries around the world, Obama has a greatly inflated idea of his own capabilities and the capabilities off what can be accomplished by rhetoric or even by political power.
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Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.
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The artist... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he will not move his fellow human beings.
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It is astonishing how articulate one can become when alone and raving at a radio. Arguments and counter arguments, rhetoric and bombast flow from one's lips like scurf from the hair of a bank manager.
