Stephen Fry Quotes
When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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Directors only have instinct to work out of, because there is no formula. Formulas don't work. Actually, if you follow a formula, you will probably end up with a bad movie.
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It's critical to simplify and run the business in such a way that resources are released to invest in your main business.
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Don't hide behind the Constitution or the Bible. If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, 'I am a homophobe!'
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Malcolm X was the national spokesperson of the N.O.I., and he wasn't represented in their own newspaper for over a year.
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Compassion should be unbiased and based on the recognition that others have the right to happiness, just like you.
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But still try, for who knows what is possible?
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The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.
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Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.
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Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.
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There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.
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Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.
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… ; but conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep ; and habit is our idea of eternity.
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Anyway I got a tight little honey dip That's why these niggas get tight when honey dip
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As a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and emotional form of expression. I like to write music which takes its inspiration from poetry, art and nature. I do not care for purely decorative music. Although I am in sympathy with modern idioms, I abhor music which attempts nothing more than the illustration of a stylistic fad. And in using modern techniques, I have tried at all times to subjugate them to a larger idea or a grander human feeling.
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When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
