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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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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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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If we don't change our culture, the politics is going to migrate more and more to statism.
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Whoever has approved this idea of order, of the form of European, of English literature, will not find it preposterous that the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past. And the poet who is aware of this will be aware of great difficulties and responsibilities.
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There must be no more pictures covered in brown sauce c. 1880, when Munch started to paint series of landscapes in fresh colors
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God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
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[Never underestimate] the power of dinner.
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I learned at an early age that what we were doing in the choir was just as important as the preacher. It was a ministry in itself. We could stir the pot, you know?
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I can never be in the same place for too long. It feels like the world is caving in.
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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.
