Stephen Fry Quotes

I have always been an impassioned advocate for the works of Shakespeare. I regard him as one of the most complete miracles of his or any other age.

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• It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.

  

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• The eyes of the world are fixed on the U.S. to see if we have the political courage and moral sense to solve our debt crisis.

  

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• Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.

  

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• Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.

  

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• Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

  

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• You have to invest the money in a certain thing, because, you know, at 40, I want to enjoy my life. So I do a lot of investments. Apartments back in Russia and New York. It's a good thing to do.

  

  Irina Shayk
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• In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality at the League of Nations, but Woodrow Wilson overturned it in the face of majority support.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
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• I've always found it embarrassing to receive awards.

  

  Sam Shepard
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• With the first 'Hatchet,' I had an epic battle with the ratings board. They kept giving the movie an NC-17. There is absolutely no way that movie should have gotten an NC-17. All the gore in it is so ridiculous and over-the-top that you can't take it seriously.

  

  Adam Green
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• I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.

  

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• The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.

  

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• Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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• A celebrity now is someone who's on the telly.

  

  Kate Moss
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• Life is full of choices, and many years ago, I chose to become a vegetarian, and it was one of the best choices I’ve ever made.

  

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  • Life
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• My mom has given me my sense of style. She has taught me how individual style is so beautiful, what you appreciate on someone else might not be good for you. For her, style is all about being comfortable, and she has an innate sense of sophisticated style.

  

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• Politics has become entertainment.

  

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• I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate.

  

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• I think men are a beautiful creation.

  

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• After us they’ll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they’ll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, 'Oh! Life is so hard!' and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Life
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• If sheep do not have the constant care of a shepherd, they will go the wrong way, unaware of the dangers at hand. They have been known to nibble themselves right off the side of a mountain..... And so, because sheep are sheep, they need shepherds to care for them. The welfare of sheep depends solely upon the care they get from their shepherd. Therefore, the better the shepherd, the healthier the sheep.

  

  Kay Arthur
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• What I'm talking about is actually is the Mystery of Being as existential fact. That there is something that haunts this world that can take apart and reduce every single one of us to a mixture of terror and ecstasy, fear and trembling. It is not an idea, that's the primary thing to bear in mind. It's an experience.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Mind
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• I have always been an impassioned advocate for the works of Shakespeare. I regard him as one of the most complete miracles of his or any other age.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Age
  • Miracle
  • Impassioned