Stephen Fry Quotes
I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are all capable of it and furthermore that a small, often ignored corner of us positively yearns to try it.
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.
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The only album that I listen to upon recording a new one is my 'Cry' album, because sonically, I think it's my best album to date. But other than that, I've never listened to my records, ever.
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How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?
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Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.
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Reality is being itself. - It is being itself, in becoming itself. Reality in its isness, the 'isness' of a thing. Thus isness is the meaning - having freedom in its primary sense - not limited by attachments, confinements, partialization, complexities.
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This is my advice to entrepreneurs. It's easy to give up, but believe in your ideas. Surround yourself with people you respect and are smarter than you.
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I love working with Alexander Skarsgard. He brings such gravity to a scene.
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When we don’t get acknowledgment or feel that we are giving more than we are getting out of conversations or feel talked down to, we become anxious, disrespected, and humiliated.
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I do this thing where I think I'm real sick but I won't go to the doctor to find out about it cause they make you stay real still in a real small space as they chart up your insides and put them on display. They'd see all of it, all of me, all of it; All the good that won't come out of me...
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Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
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Real love isn't ever ambivalent.
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And then I say to myself that we should believe in that which we felt when we were strong and happy rather than in that which we feel when we are sick and sad. Do you not think, Judith, that one is more truly oneself in times of joy than in times of sorrow?
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I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are all capable of it and furthermore that a small, often ignored corner of us positively yearns to try it.
