Stephen Fry Quotes
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
Mahavira -
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
Zora Neale Hurston -
I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
Yuan Yuan Tan -
We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.
F. Sionil Jose -
We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.
Ingmar Bergman -
I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because there is no going back, I'm forced to begin a new book so I can finally complete the previous one.
Patrick Modiano
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I am a Democrat. But I am an independent Democrat.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
Walt Mossberg -
I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.
Wayne Rooney -
It's all about progression, not getting stuck and about having aspirations, which can lead you to do more and not just be satisfied. I was always that way about my dancing, and that's how I am about whatever it is I tend to pursue.
Damian Woetzel -
In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
Panayiotis Zavos -
I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.
Candace Bushnell
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I like throwing snowballs at small children.
Sam Mendes -
Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.
Young Jeezy -
I began in radio in 1997 on a radio show hosted by a now very famous comic, Jamel Debbouze. I would fake call listeners.
Omar Sy -
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
Yann Martel -
Send me no more reviews of any kind. - I will read no more of evil or good in that line. - Walter Scott has not read a review of himself for thirteen years.
Lord Byron -
He loved his country as no other man has loved her; but no man deserved less at her hands.
Edward Everett Hale
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I was chased through a chateau in the Loire Valley by a bunch of American school girls.
David Hyde Pierce -
I do not believe having a baby is punishment.
Allen West -
Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.
Claire Messud -
I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.
Natalie Maines -
We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Norman Vincent Peale -
I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
Stephen Fry