Stephen Fry Quotes
It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.

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I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.
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I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.
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I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
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Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
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Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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As a society, we've evolved, and we've recognized that the American family structure has undergone enormous changes. Divorce is all around us, and who among us doesn't know someone who is divorced or has been impacted by divorce. It's not as scandalous as it was.
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The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.
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We all get self-centered.
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We are political animals, as, not without reason, affirmed Aristotle, who perhaps influenced humanity's thinking more than any other ancient philosopher through his almost 200 treatises, according to reports, of which only 31 have been preserved.
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Are you in my dream too?
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons.
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My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.
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I've been spending this last month trying to find four outfits to wear to the different premieres of The Two Towers. It's hard work.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.
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和平未到根本絕望時期,決不放棄和平,犧牲未到最後關頭,決不輕言犧牲
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There is no way of being almost funny or mildly funny or fairly funny or tolerably funny. You are either funny or not funny and there is nothing in between. And usually it is the writer who thinks he is funny and the reader who thinks he isn't.
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It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.