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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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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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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I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
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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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I'm a real optimist.
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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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I had no idea 'The Dream Weaver' would be so successful. Everything just fell into place with that album. I pioneered a number of ideas with that album and subsequent tour. The all-keyboard approach with no guitars was a new one, and I was one of the first to use a drum machine in concert. It was an amazing time.
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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 think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.
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When you sit in meditation, feel the joy in your soul.
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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.
