Stephen Fry Quotes
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Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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I am a conservative and proud of it.
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You see and work with many of the same people over and over again; they are all specialists in what they do. I could never do their jobs, and they say they wouldn't know how to start to do a warm-up.
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There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
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You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.
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I couldn't be accepted into tennis school because I was too young. I had to wait a year until I was four before they'd accept me.
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I have met so many of my idols - like Ray Charles, Brian Setzer - all these cats that are legendary musicians. If they had said to me, 'Hey man, I'm busy,' it would have crushed my soul.
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There is really no room in any healthy diet for trans fat, artificial sweeteners, and artificial colors in food.
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I've always had these morals I've sort of put on myself: that excess is bad. I used to be into Buddhism and stuff. I was vegetarian. I was all about shutting things out.
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In the depth of the near depression, that he faced when he came in, Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress provided 'recovery funds' that literally kept our classrooms open. Two years ago, these funds saved nearly 20,000 teacher and education jobs - just here in North Carolina.
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At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.
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So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.
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I think everyone is born funny. Sadly, some lives beat it out of them. I don't know what allows someone to keep being funny and actually make a career of it.
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My kids are good artists, and they do a pretty good version of Dad in their caricatures.
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My first fear was about the devil, when I was around fire, something I saw in a movie. I think it's about pain, in whichever form it comes. I had a lot of energy as a child - sometimes too much - and I didn't know how to channel it. It was making me suffer. It was bigger than myself, and I was very young.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
