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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As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.
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With abolition, it's necessary to destroy systems of oppression. But it's equally necessary to put at the forefront our conversations about creation. When we fight for justice, what exactly do we want for our communities?
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You need people to encourage you along the way, both during your success and failures, because there will be both.
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Sometimes you have to scare people to save their lives. But I'm very much against it if you're trying to sell a product.
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If this world is wearing thin And you're thinking of escape I'll go anywhere with you Just wrap me up in chains But if you try to go alone Don't think I'll understand Stay with me, stay with me.
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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.
