Stephen Fry Quotes

If you think you're going to have an eternity in which you can talk to Mozart and Chopin and Schopenhauer on a cloud and learn stuff and you know really get to grips with knowledge and understanding and so you won't bother now, I think it's a terrible, a terrible mistake.

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• Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Wall
  • Trump
  • Down

• It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • Chance

• I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

  

  Abu Abbas
  • War
  • Feel
  • Mistakes

• If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Walking
  • Sorry
  • Thank You

• Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Calm
  • Events
  • Quiet

• The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Time
  • Women
  • Chance

• I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Reading
  • Doubt
  • Revolution

• As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I and my team can come up with a solution.

  

  David MacKenzie
  • Up
  • Team
  • Trust

• Playing a real-life character is a challenge and a huge responsibility.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Life
  • Real
  • Character

• You can't give up in any game, even if you are losing.

  

  Jaromir Jagr
  • Up
  • Game

• When I met my wife, I was focused on making money but failing miserably.

  

  Adam Neumann
  • Money
  • Wife

• When I launched my first campaign in 1999, I knew that the arc of my public service would have many chapters.

  

  Jim Matheson
  • Service

• Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.

  

  Leo Ornstein
  • Trying

• I think I'm the most private out of my family.

  

  Kendall Jenner
  • Family

• In general, fashion is decorative, it's protective, it acknowledges that the world does involve conflict, and you might be attacked by assumptions, presumptions, and attitudes.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • World
  • Fashion

• Being a good race car driver is one thing, but to take all the time commitments and all the pushing and pulling and learning when to say no - because you need to rest or focus on the things you need to do to make the car go fast - those are the hardest things to learn and the most distracting things to learn.

  

  Kevin Harvick
  • Time
  • Good
  • Learning

• Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it.

  

  James Spader
  • Money
  • Fun
  • Society

• Nothing in my life has necessarily been easy, but eventually I see where it's gotten me to, and I say, 'Okay, it's been worth it.'

  

  Aldis Hodge
  • Life

• Character is incredibly jagged, and incredibly contextualized, even to the point where I still feel uncomfortable thinking about it.

  

  L. Todd Rose
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Uncomfortable

• The heart wants who the heart wants. We can't help that.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Wants

• All small returns are noise. To transcend the noise and the risk, seek outsized returns from technological paradigms.

  

  George Gilder
  • Risk
  • Return
  • Noise

• You'd hope that no writing about music could supersede the music itself. But I do think that blogs mirror the way that we are listening. It comes at you fast and it's timely and then five minutes later we're on to something else. It caters to our desire for instant gratification. And I think blogs also have fluidity that's exciting. You have a lot of real enthusiastic music fans for the most part that are writing sometimes for a large audience, and I think certain blogs have a little too much power over what someone likes or doesn't like.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Real

• If you think you're going to have an eternity in which you can talk to Mozart and Chopin and Schopenhauer on a cloud and learn stuff and you know really get to grips with knowledge and understanding and so you won't bother now, I think it's a terrible, a terrible mistake.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Thinking
  • Mistake