Stephen Fry Quotes
Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not because they had massive brows and thought deep incomprehensible thoughts, but because they opened windows in the mind, they put their arms round you and showed you things you always knew but never dared to believe. Even if their names were terrifyingly foreign and intellectual sounding, Dostoevsky, Baudelaire or Cavafy, they turned out to be charming and wonderful and quite unalarming after all.
Stephen Fry
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While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.
Eden Robinson
The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
Karen Hughes
This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
Olivia Wilde
Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
Lark Voorhies
There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
Ted Nugent
It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.
Wale
Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.
Rachel Griffiths
All eyes are on you when you're modeling and acting, and I just didn't want the attention when I wasn't working. But as I've gotten older, I've become more comfortable with my body and am taking more fashion risks.
Carey Lowell
There's a preponderance of scientists and engineers among China's rulers. New President Xi Jinping was trained as a chemical engineer. His predecessor, Hu Jintao, earned a degree in hydraulic engineering. His predecessor, Jiang Zemin, held a degree in electrical engineering.
Ramez Naam
Since I was 14, I wanted to make music, but I think I would also have made a good policeman. When I was eight, I wanted to be one so I could tell people off.
Calvin Harris
I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.
Vanessa Carlton
Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
P. J. O'Rourke
We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction.
I. L. Peretz
Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
Gary Wolf
I believe in international justice. I believe it's important that you don't just turn the page without people being held to account.
Amal Clooney
These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.
Umberto Boccioni
I do have an ego, but I acknowledge the help I get.
Anton Corbijn
Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not because they had massive brows and thought deep incomprehensible thoughts, but because they opened windows in the mind, they put their arms round you and showed you things you always knew but never dared to believe. Even if their names were terrifyingly foreign and intellectual sounding, Dostoevsky, Baudelaire or Cavafy, they turned out to be charming and wonderful and quite unalarming after all.
Stephen Fry
