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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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov
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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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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
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The holes weren't as open as they were last year. Last year, there were gaping holes in there.
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I was working in Lexington when I recognized this actor, Michael Shannon, and I was like, 'What do you do?' He told me to get into a theater company, so I got into a theater company near my hometown. I was a carpenter there. And then I slowly got some work.
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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.
