Stephen Fry Quotes
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Diversified interests must exist in every community, and that system which is best calculated to promote the general interest is the one which should be adopted and adhered to with fidelity.
Sam Houston -
In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
Valerie Plame -
I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.
Eamon de Valera -
The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
Gareth Gates -
It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.
Irvin Kershner -
I definitely have family on the brain.
Rachel Bilson
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How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.
Daniel Alarcon -
I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.
Victoria Osteen -
My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.
Indra Nooyi -
Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
Randeep Hooda -
The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
Lamar Alexander
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
Dale Dauten -
A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
Damien Hirst -
I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
Well, I can't figure out God.
Oral Roberts -
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
Vaclav Havel -
It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.
Ian Anderson
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Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine.
Daniel Libeskind -
You never know what life can hand you, but YOU have the choice and power to give back love and kindness in all you do and how you treat others.
Angela Rockwood -
Love is never easy. It never is. And I'm not just talking about girl and guy, girlfriend, boyfriend, husband and wife. I'm talking about family, friends - all of that.
LeToya Luckett Destiny's Child -
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.
Socrates -
Hall of Love has ten thousand swords. Don't be afraid to use one.
Rumi -
Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.
Stephen Fry