Stephen Fry Quotes
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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We benefit tremendously from the E.U. Britain does very well in getting back E.U. money for the amount it puts in.
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Asia is changing, and China is changing. The 'Post' will have great opportunities. With its access to Alibaba's resources, data, and all the relationships in our ecosystem, the 'Post' can report on Asia and China more accurately compared with other media that have no such access.
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People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.
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If you're not willing to accept the pain real values incur, don't bother going to the trouble of formulating a values statement. You'll be better off without one.
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What difference does it make, whether we keep our silence because they force us or because we're afraid they might force us?
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Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90.
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Man’s craving for the supernatural is as natural as our discounting of the present moment... The natural becomes trite and commonplace to us and we take refuge in an imaginary world above and beyond it.
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Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end.
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They come to have a party for themselves, and we're kind of a house band for their party.
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The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.
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I get naturally uncomfortable when I'm put under a magnifying glass.
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You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is.
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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
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I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head.
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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Looking good has never been the most important thing to me. Maybe it's because I'm more conventionally, um, acceptable, so it's not an issue for me. I don't know.
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Between funny and witty Falls the shadow
