Stephen Fry Quotes
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
Quotes to Explore
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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It's superficial that people think I'm cool because I wear certain clothes and I have tattoos. The funniest part is, when they get to know me, they're always surprised by how nerdy I am.
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In the morning, I always use a cube of ice on my face – it gives me a natural lift.
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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.
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You've got to be able to take the bad events with the good ones. You've got to learn to deal with them and learn to take as much as you can from those. Have fun and put as much as you can into it. As long as you've done your best, that's all you can do.
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I don't like concrete jungles.
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For all the things that make Chicago great, for all the things that make us proud to call ourselves Chicagoans, the violence that is happening corrodes our core. It is not the Chicago we know and love.
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You got these $10,000-a-plate dinners and Golden Circles Clubs. I think when the average voter looks at that, they rightly feel they're locked out of the process. They can't attend a $10,000 breakfast and they know that those who can are going to get the kind of access they can't imagine.
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But love like that doesn’t just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there’s always a little love left, underneath.Yes. Horrible, isn’t it?
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I constantly make fashion mistakes but I think it's good to take risks.
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I had all these singles come out within a two-month period, and then nothing for almost two years. You start to feel a little irrelevant. You realize how many people there are trying to be songwriters and how competitive it is and how political things can be.
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For those that fear being taken advantage of by people working from home or on flexible schedules, I can say my experience is quite the opposite. Employees are so appreciative of these accommodations that they outperform their coworkers and are less likely to be poached by the competition.
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I think the fear of being seen as childish or crazy severely limits our enjoyment of the world around us, thus inducing a state of boredom that in turn gives rise to much of the stupidity and meanness that oftem seem to epitomize the human condtion. In fact, these ills merely signify that the dues we pay for adult respectability are far too high, and bring some 'benefits' of questionable value.
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We are wrong to fear superiority of mind and soul; this superiority is very moral, for understanding everything makes a person tolerant and the capacity to feel deeply inspires great goodness.
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Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
