Stephen Fry Quotes

But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.

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• A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Sometimes
  • Rules
  • Mortgage

• The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Information
  • Public
  • Almost

• I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Me
  • Doors
  • Open

• I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Money
  • Commercial
  • Hobby

• Since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, the gap between men and women's earnings has narrowed by less than a half-cent per year. At this rate, American women will have to wait until 2062 to bring home the same salary as their male counterparts.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Men
  • Women
  • Home

• Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.

  

  Vasily Grossman
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• To further promote anti-corruption efforts, we need to insist on the successful experiences gained through the Party's long-term anti-corruption practice. We need to actively draw on effective practices conducted by foreign countries around the world, and our own valuable heritage.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • World
  • Long
  • Party

• I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism, let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than, quite simply, to be at all times caught in the dominant forms of the moment.

  

  Alain Badiou
  • Today
  • Simple

• Making movies is about control. You need to control your narcissism in the first place, and you need to be disciplined enough to understand the reason for the film. You need to follow the agenda of the film, not a personal agenda or that of the studio. Or, worst of all, of the actors.

  

  Luca Guadagnino
  • Control

• Everyone deserves the opportunity to fight for the part they want.

  

  Ana de Armas
  • Opportunity

• It was easy to get the offers for the good-looking vapid dude. I guess that's my power alley.

  

  Jason Lewis
  • Good
  • Power

• Tesla is becoming a real car company.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Real
  • Car

• My favorite Duke player ever is Steve Wojciechowski. He called me one day congratulating me on my success thus far, and I was like,'I appreciate it, but man, please don't congratulate me. I know when you guys start the season, you're not just trying to be 10-10 or ACC champions, you're trying to win it all.'

  

  Mike Posner
  • Trying
  • Success
  • Player

• I'm going to be like Benjamin Button; I'm just going to grow younger. I will probably be happy, fat, with kids and looking back and thinking, 'I was such a angry young woman.'

  

  Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Happy

• I like being full, every day, with stuff that I have to do.

  

  Louis C. K.

• Acting in 'Star Wars' I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were.

  

  Mark Hamill
  • Star

• I kept getting offered all this young adult stuff. I don't want to keep telling teen coming-of-age stories!

  

  Dee Rees
  • Age
  • Teen

• I don't like any art form barraged in violence or hurt.

  

  Adriana Trigiani
  • Art
  • Violence
  • Hurt

• The press always causes a certain amount of hesitance for people who are considering entering public life. So simply encouraging women to enter politics, on any level, not just on the state level, is extremely important.

  

  Kerry Healey
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• For most men, a stepford wife would bore them to tears after a couple of weeks

  

  Na'ima B. Robert
  • Men
  • Wife
  • Couple

• You can stop splitting the atom; you can stop visiting the moon; you can stop using aerosols; you may even decide not to kill entire populations by the use of a few bombs. But you cannot recall a new form of life.

  

  Erwin Chargaff
  • Moon
  • Bombs
  • Atom

• But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Men
  • Real
  • Lying