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.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
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I didn't aim at anything except good music.
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You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.
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(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).
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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.
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You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say, 'Wow, they made a difference in some kind of way.'
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I'm not sure I'd be as successful as I am as a woman in a profession other than in technology. Because it tends to be a bit neutral. If you have the tools, if you can code, it's a lot more sort of merit and recognizes talent.
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Parallels between classical and pop are not new. The whole San Francisco movement of John Cage and Terry Riley went hand in glove with what the Velvet Underground were doing.
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I know that Oprah and I mean a lot to each other... I know at all times I have somebody that I can count on always.
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Every challenge that comes up is just a problem that needs a solution.
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'Atlantic City' is very good.
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We need to blinker ourselves, to better monitor our attentional focus. Enforced periods of no email or Internet to allow us to sustain concentration have been shown to be tremendously helpful. And breaks - even a 15-minute break every two or three hours - make us more productive in the long run.
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I'm going to be in technology for a long time.
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Students follow rules. Students complete assignments. The job of students - in part, at least - is to please their teachers. Now, I realize I may be exaggerating a little here, but basically I think I'm right: students do what they're told.
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Labels are for cans, not people.
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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.
