Stephen Fry Quotes
One of the reasons I love the online world is that although that exists in abundance you can choose absolutely which part of the online world you want to live in. You can make your own kingdom in that sense.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'
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I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.
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The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.
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I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
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When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.
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Sometimes I want to party, sometimes I want to fight and sometimes I want to cry.
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Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.
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Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations.
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It's crazy enough to be the person crawling through the bushes in Northern Ireland with a telescopic lens taking pictures - there are crazy people out there. But the idea that people want to go to sites and find out those spoilers... it's like if there was a website called Last Pages of Great Books, would you read that?
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When love is our guiding light, we can break through barriers to be of loving service to the world. Gaining the courage and confidence to stand up for what you believe in is not always easy, but it's fully within your reach.
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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
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At the end of the day in our sport, you just have to sacrifice yourself completely to put the team first. That's not easy for us because we're so competitive, but that's the most important thing when it comes to World Championships.
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One of the reasons I love the online world is that although that exists in abundance you can choose absolutely which part of the online world you want to live in. You can make your own kingdom in that sense.
