Stephen Fry Quotes
Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.
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On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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I'm constantly coming up with new strategies for getting to the mental place where writing is so joyous and playful that I almost can't help putting the words down.
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Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
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You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.
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The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.
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Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason.
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I keep my perfume in the fridge. If someone sees me in the morning pushing aside the eggs to grab my perfume, it might look a little odd, but it's so refreshing to spray cold fragrance on your skin.
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It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
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I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.
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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
