Stephen Fry Quotes
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.
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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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My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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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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I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.
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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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I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!
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I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.
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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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Technological unemployment is scary for those affected - but has always gone hand in hand with economic progress.
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Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.
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Between funny and witty Falls the shadow
