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.
Quotes to Explore
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Conscience is God present in man.
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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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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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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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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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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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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.
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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, 'If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?'
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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Raffi: I can too marry Stone Cold Steve Austin when I grow up!Bill: Clarice, what are you teaching this kid?Bill Jr.: You can not, 'cause I'm gonna marry him, and we're gonna kick your butt!
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Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.
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If we lower the payroll tax, will Americans let us raise it again? I don't think so.
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
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Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.
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I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what we do. That's what storytellers do.
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Life will be much more exciting when we stop creating applications for mobile phones and we start creating applications for our own body.
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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.
