Stephen Fry Quotes

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

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• I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.

  

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• You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.

  

  Harry Browne
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• Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!

  

  Tasha Smith
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• We are all born with God-given, unique traits and skills. But, as with all possibilities they will remain unrealized unless they are developed, nurtured, and put into practice. You may have the 'capacity' to love, but if left undeveloped, you will never gain the 'ability.'

  

  Leo Buscaglia
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• I had the chance to play with Benny 'The King' Carter here in Copenhagen for three days in the Montmartre, and two days in Paris. 'What a Thrill.' He knows so much music, and he is the only person that I get the shakes trying to play my horn behind or with him (smile). However, it was a ball.

  

  Ben Webster
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• I think an awful lot of the diplomatic problems that exist in the world come from people assuming that their society is the one with a purchase on truth.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
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• When you lose, there is a whole bunch of room for negativity and I don't feed into this stuff and I do not do any talking. I don't run my mouth.

  

  Allen Iverson
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• It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• I studied in Britain and spent great moments of my life there as a student living in Belsize Park. I admire the British trait of the stiff upper lip in the face of adversity. My wife studied in Britain, too, and both of us have many friends there.

  

  Asif Ali Zardari
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• Every leader is telling a story... about what he or she values.

  

  Walt Disney
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• Until a vegan or vegetarian enters the room, people don't see themselves as meat-eaters. They are merely 'eaters', and it is we vegans who have made them aware of what they are doing. Often this is discomforting.

  

  Carol J. Adams
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• Where I grew up, acting wasn't really accessible. I was just playing sports. But, I did watch a lot of TV. I watched a lot of Clint Eastwood movies on TV and had this fantasy of being like him when I grew up.

  

  Bailey Chase
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• Something may be fully approved of … well transmitted … well cogitated ... well pondered, yet it may be empty, hollow, and false; but something else may not be well pondered, yet it may be factual, true, and unmistaken. Under these conditions it is not proper for a wise man who preserves truth to come to the definite conclusion: ‘Only this is true, anything else is wrong.

  

  Bhikkhu Bodhi
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• Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of sexuality. Gender emerges as the congealed form of the sexualization of inequaltiy between men and women.

  

  Catharine MacKinnon
  • People
  • Moving
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• I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Advantage
  • Divine
  • Indolence