Stephen Fry Quotes
If there is a sort of national American emotion I would call it optimism. If there is an English one I would call it embarrassment - not even pessimism - just sheer shame, embarrassment and confusion.
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When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
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The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
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Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.
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I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.
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Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.
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Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.
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I don’t know what a star is. I never think about these things, because the more you think about them, the more your ears get used to them.
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Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.
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Chanel lambskin, vintage Vanson I'm on the bike doing wheelies in a mansion
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You can cut your hair how you want, but I think you should get to where you wear it normal for the future.
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I haven't touched meat or anything like that in over six years. You know what's pretty trippy, once I stopped, I didn't get sick from that point on. I'll get a light cold once in a while, but ever since that, I've just been completely on my toes and it helps for surfing too, to stay light on your toes and be healthy.
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You look sad even though we just met No need to get upset But I got a show, gotta go, so I thank you And if you wanna still get sexed down You could catch the next Greyhound But until then, I gotta go, so I thank you
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Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.
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American music culture is black culture.
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As Siri says, who is deeply involved with neuroscience, emotion consolidates memory, and I think that's true.
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There are so many emotions that are just better when you react to people reacting to it. Like laughter.
