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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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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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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I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.
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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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Call it not paranoia, but caution.
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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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I think that idea of 'because I'm sexy, I'm a feminist' is kind of immature. But as long as women think being sexy is what makes them beautiful and powerful... then it will continue.
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People need to see where their dollars are going and what infrastructure is being built.
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A romantic," said Nightingale much, much later. "The most dangerous people on Earth.
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Look how in societies today where Islam is dominant and prominent, how any non-Islamic person, whether it's a Christian or an apostate or a woman or a critical journalist, how they are treated. This is in a very bad way, often with the death penalty or imprisonment or all those kind of terrible things.
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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.
