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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Jerusalem is all about a very special relationship between the ground and the sky. This work attempts to bring the two together.
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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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For me personally, as I said, I want to serve my country. I've done it once, and I'm still in the army, I feel as though I should get the opportunity to do it again.
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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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Carrying body and soul and embracing the one, Can you avoid separation?
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But I was still hoping to be able to coach and teach.
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There appears to be but two grand master passions or movers in the human mind, namely, love and pride. And what constitutes the beauty or deformity of a man's character is the choice he makes under which banner he determines to enlist himself. But there is a strong distinction between different degress in the same thing and a mixture of two contraries.
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For real, some of my favorite music is Mexican. It's something about the bassline and the drumming. I can't even speak Spanish, but that's probably why I like it so much.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
