Stephen Fry Quotes

It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked being seen to. This was dangerously subversive.

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• There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Morning

• A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Know
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• I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Writing
  • Movie
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• Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.

  

  Taron Egerton
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  • Actor
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• I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Young

• I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.

  

  Ralph Macchio
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• 'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • War
  • Mean
  • Struggle

• I didn't aim at anything except good music.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Good
  • Music
  • Aim

• If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
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  • Vanity

• You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • You
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  • Impossible

• Every few years, the feds and the courts change direction or fail to answer important questions. And every day, the Internet becomes more of a platform for lousy ads, for increasing the power of a few rich companies, and for intrusive tracking. It's too important to leave unprotected.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Important
  • Power
  • Change

• There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Family
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Church
  • Period

• (intro) Well, here we go. This is the first book I've written since 1975, when I was in the 7th grade and wrote Boogers Are Good Eatin'. (p. 1).

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
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• We'll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens.

  

  Benjamin Netanyahu

• Here in the hospital, I say,that is not my body, not my body.I am not here for the doctorsto read like a recipe.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Body
  • Hospital
  • Recipe

• A little man often cast a long shadow.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Long
  • Man
  • Shadow

• I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Long
  • History
  • Culture

• I really liked the idea of focusing on one thing for, hopefully, a long time to come. I also like the idea of a consistent lifestyle, as opposed to not really knowing where on the planet you're going to be at any given moment.

  

  Anna Paquin
  • Time
  • Long

• Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
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  • Long
  • Age

• It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked being seen to. This was dangerously subversive.

  

  Stephen Fry
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