Stephen Fry Quotes
A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.
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So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams.
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Policymakers can draw much from 'The Need for Roots': such clear prescriptions as that employers ought to provide an adequate vocational training for their employees, education should be compulsory and publicly funded, and include technical as well as elementary education.
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Not that I went into the Olympics with any doubt, but my holiday plans afterwards depended on how well I did - bronze, silver or gold.
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In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.
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It's good to know people think I'm a nice guy.
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'In Prague, big red posters were put up on which one could read that seven Czechs had been shot today. I said to myself, 'If I had to put up a poster for every seven Poles shot, the forests of Poland would not be sufficient to manufacture the paper.'
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Never demand of another that which would constitute his sacrifice to you. Never grant that which would constitute your sacrifice to him.
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Love is too precious to be ashamed of.
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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The last eight years have created a lot of deep-seated hostility. People take political decisions very personally, and today there is a constant, ongoing attack, with one side or the other being maligned.
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I adore Madrid. It's my city. If I ever move, it will only be for work. Whenever I travel, I always want to get back home.
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I don't like to use the words 'real women,' honestly. I like to use the word 'woman.' And I say that because there are so many women out there who are naturally thin or are naturally curvy, and I think when we start putting a label on the type of woman, it gets misconstrued and starts to offend people.
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The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life.
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I like who I am.
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It's not palm trees and neon signs in Florida; it's strip malls, highways, hot sun beating down on you.
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For me, the natural world is always telling big stories about humongous scales of time. And I often feel simultaneously terrified and humbled by those scales and in awe, and delighted that I get to be here; that I'm lucky enough, that we are lucky enough to get experience these things for the tiny finger snap of time that we get to be on Earth.
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There are so many emotions when I step on the ice.
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I love to run and I have some tips to keep it fresh and novel. I rarely use the same route twice. That keeps things new.
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We use puppets because they can get away with more.
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It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.
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Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders.
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A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.
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A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.
