Stephen Fry Quotes
The most important philosophy I think is that even if it isn't true you must absolutely assume there is no afterlife.Stephen Fry
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
Yogi Berra -
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London -
My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
Jack Black -
Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
Zooey Deschanel -
I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
Quentin Crisp -
When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.
Saina Nehwal
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You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
Pat Riley -
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
Salman Rushdie -
As for what other people think of me, I could worry about that every day, but choose not to.
Wendi Deng Murdoch -
I find inspiration by feeling like I haven't done or achieved anything. I push all songs I've written to the furthest part of my mind so I am not thinking of what I've done. I continue to think on what I need to do.
Jason Boyd -
Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
Albert Ellis -
Artists, whether they're Tom Cruise or John Waters or Ron Howard or Oliver Stone, you can empower them to become a better version of themselves, but you cannot change them 180 degrees to be someone they are not.
Brian Grazer
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I assumed that, if I put my head down and did great work, what I deserved would come to me. What you deserve will not come to you. It is only in advocating for yourself that you will receive what you deserve.
Caroline Ghosn -
All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.
David Cassidy -
I think it's important to not just speak to like-minded people.
Jenny Slate -
The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.
Danny Huston -
The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.
James Dyson -
I'm petrified of spiders. I hate them. I sleep with a glass of water beside my bed every night. I woke up once to take a sip of water and almost swallowed a dead one floating in the glass.
Kyle Schmid
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I'd like to see the Amazon rainforests before they're all gone, and also the Galapagos - that's another one I'd like to do. I'd love to go diving in those areas. Basically, places, like, that are kind of going away, and I'd like to see them before they all become condos and high-rises.
Bill Engvall -
Espionage and counterespionage go together like horse and carriage.
Charles McCarry -
Happiness" alone does not guarantee mental health and well-being. A tempering dose of disappointment- an occasional taste of frustration and learning that you do recover from it- goes a long way toward producing long-term contentment. Indeed the ability to ride out the bad times without feeling doomed is essential to survival. When happiness is not taken for granted, and when one is acquainted with its opposite it is more easily savored and has more lasting effects.
Victoria Secunda -
When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That's par for the course.When you're a movie star, it went with it. It's a kind of rite of passage, socially.
Al Pacino -
The most important philosophy I think is that even if it isn't true you must absolutely assume there is no afterlife.
Stephen Fry