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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All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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Think of new ways to do old things. You must protect against boredom in a practice situation.
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Your denomination is not defined by a style. So don’t let style become a point of contention.
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Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.
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Tam: What begg’st thou then? fond woman, let me go. Lav: ’Tis present death I beg; and one thing more That womanhood denies my tongue to tell. O! keep me from their worse than killing lust, And tumble me into some loathsome pit, Where never man’s eye may behold my body: Do this, and be a charitable murderer. Tam: So should I rob my sweet sons of their fee: No, let them satisfy their lust on thee. Dem: Away! for thou hast stay’d us here too long. Lav: No grace! no womanhood! Ah, beastly creature, The blot and enemy to our general name. Confusion fall—
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Between funny and witty Falls the shadow
