Stephen Fry Quotes
I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to carry about with me, irrespective of place and people, because I have never joined in.
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Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.
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For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.
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My memories of events and games are fragmented.
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They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
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I am absolutely stunned how the Democrats were able to somehow say that the Republicans had a war on women... What was the war on women?
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I don't really believe in evil at all.
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It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
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The European vision is the United Nations' vision.
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It doesn't matter if you've been working hard on something for six months. If you realize a track is wack, you have to throw it away. A lot of people can't do that.
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I have a personal little routine that I do in my dressing room just to kind of get myself mentally prepared to go on stage, and part of that is a poem that I read to myself.
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We were high above fields, and there far, far below, was a small shadow as of a great bird tearing along the neatly marked off fields. It gave me the most tremendous shock to realize for the first time the terrific speed we were going at and that that shadow meant us - us, like a mirror! That 'bird' - it was us.
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If you're wearing suits and you want to create your own sense of style, get to the tailor.
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Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.
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I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape.
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I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.
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For the Arminian, salvation is possible for all but certain for none. In the Calvinist position, salvation is sure for God's elect.
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I came to a clear conclusion, and it is a universal one: To live, to struggle, to be in love with life--in love with all life holds, joyful or sorrowful--is fulfillment. The fullness of life is open to all of us.
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... what is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after looking at these things, how they confront reality again. Really great art regenerates the perception of reality; the reality becomes richer, better or not, just different.
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I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to carry about with me, irrespective of place and people, because I have never joined in.
