Stephen Fry Quotes
Compromise is a stalling between two fools.
Stephen Fry
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Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.
Samuel Johnson
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Do we regard language as more public, more ceremonial, than thought? Just as family men condemn the profanity on the stage that they use constantly in conversation, in the same way we may look to written language as an idealization rather than a reflection of ourselves.
Edmund White
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I am in show business. I don't, for a minute, ever forget that this is a business that I'm involved in, and it plays by business' rules.
Harrison Ford
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Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
Alexander Pope
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Way down South they gave a jubilee Them Georgia folks they had a jamboree They’re drinking home brew from a wooden cup The folks dancing there got all shook up.
Chuck Berry
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I'm not friends with any of my exes, and I've never understood the appeal.
Chelsea Handler
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These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of holding in the hand and talking of something new. And once this was done, it was like opium, we could no longer do without this new bauble, and thus, though we hated the foreigners and though we knew they were ruining us, we bought their goods. Thus I learned the art of the foreigners, the art of creating in the human heart restlessness, disquiet, hunger for new things, and these new desires became their best helpers.
Han Suyin
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My whole life has been instinctual for me. I wouldn't do well in the computer world.
Kevin Costner
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One side sticks to the facts, and the other side is close to playing with its poop.
Keith Olbermann
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Sometimes compromise is painful.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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Compromise is a stalling between two fools.
Stephen Fry
