Stephen Fry Quotes

Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.

Stephen Fry

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• It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.

  

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• My wife will tell you it's the little things, like driving my boys to school on my days off so she can rest. We're not into PDA, but every time we end a phone conversation, we say 'sarang,' which means love in Korean.

  

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• I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.

  

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• The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.

  

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• Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.

  

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• We have been shaken by the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Tamir Rice - shaken, but not sufficiently unsettled. We must contextualize those losses, force our neighbors to become so deeply disturbed by what has occurred that they, too, are inspired to act to change the system.

  

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• Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.

  

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• Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.

  

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• I really like guys who have confidence, but not the cocky over-the-top confidence.

  

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• I don't understand if the conservative movement says you can't be gay and conservative, and I'm straight, then I don't think I can abide by that form of conservatism.

  

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• I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out.

  

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• I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.

  

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• Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Evil
  • Belief
  • Misery