Stephen Fry Quotes
I think I'm most nervous about revealing how nervous I have always been. People think me calm, confident, poised. Inside I'm a jelly.
Stephen Fry
Quotes to Explore
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
Nathaniel Philbrick
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
Adam Grant
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
Wallace Stevens
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By itself, tofu is like wet foam rubber, but you'd no more eat it by itself and expect fine dining than you would stare at a blank canvas and expect to see fine art.
Victoria Moran
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For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture of poverty' became associated uniquely with the social maladies of African Americans in urban ghettos, despite the fact that poor whites outnumbered poor blacks.
J. D. Vance
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The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.
Ramakrishna
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Who doesn't feel commands. He who only thinks what is required in order to win, wins.
Fernando Pessoa
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The words they spoke were voices that she heard. She looked at them and saw them as they were And what she felt fought off the barest phrase.
Wallace Stevens
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Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Oliver Goldsmith
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It's impossible to explain what I felt in that moment, just very, very happy to win this title. For me, it is a dream to play in this tournament. But to win, I never imagined something like this.
Rafael Nadal
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I've deliberately studied many things that I know, going in, I won't be able to assimilate. I read Plato, St. Thomas, the mystics, to exercise my mind.
Don Ameche
