Stephen Fry Quotes
It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
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I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.
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Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.
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My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
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I try to come to Asia twice a year. I also go to Europe - to London as well as to France to see my family - four or five times a year.
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You could say I'm a laid-back kind of guy.
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Most well-known serial killers have victims numbering in the dozens, have sent taunting letters to the police or have done bizarre things to the bodies.
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I slept with a woman on the ship, and afterwards I was thinking, 'Am I gaaaay? Am I straaaaight?' And then I realized: I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?
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When it comes to whaling, Iceland is an international outlaw. Years of global negotiations and declarations have failed utterly to end its illegal slaughter of whales. It's time to send Iceland a message it can't ignore: trade sanctions.
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If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
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CLAIRE:your washing right? shane:i'll pay you for it. claire:what? shane:best high score wins claire:no bet 'wash, dish boy
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By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.
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It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.
