Stephen Fry Quotes
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Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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I loved things like Destiny's Child, and Amy Winehouse's first record came out when I was 11 years old. But as a young, young child, I was just surrounded by Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan - just massive, soulful voices.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.
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I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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Women who are stronger than the society allows them to be often feel a need for something stronger than themselves, and to dissolve into it.
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What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
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One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.
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I have veterans in my family. But I didn't know anything about DAV, Disabled American Veterans.
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I have a puppy purse, and it's named after my doggie named Sammie, who is at home. It's from Poochie and Company.
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I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.
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When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past the gaol, I used to look with awe at the window where men were hung, and the dark, closed gate.
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We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it?
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I've always lived in the moment.
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I understand your anger and outrage, I understand your pain. And yet in the self-interest of Gujarat, and to ensure that we don’t jeopardize the future of Gujarat, that Gujarat doesn’t get a blot on its face or carry a stigma connected with these times all the 5 crore Gujaratis need to keep calm and exercise self-restraint.
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Bill Maher is right to condemn religious practices that violate fundamental human rights. Religious communities must do more to counter extremist interpretations of their faith. But failing to recognize that religion is embedded in culture — and making a blanket judgment about the world’s second largest religion — is simply bigotry.
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I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.
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The mark of a good party is that you wake up the next morning wanting to change your name and start a new life in a different city.
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I've known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, 'Oh, what are you gonna be when you grow up?' I would say, 'Astrophysicist.' And then they'd walk away real quickly.
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I found it all about as arousing as a Tupperware party.
