Stephen Fry Quotes
Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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But the working I would always want to do.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
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Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.
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Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.
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It should be only a part of my life, but it isn't. I have only one thing: my work.
Nastassja Kinski
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I'm extremely grateful to all the first responders, veterans and their families for all their sacrifices.
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The zeal of atheists is the most admirable thing about them.
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Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.
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Whatever the soul chooses to love, it will resemble. And therefore what we choose to love is important: Love is the force behind every level of existence. There is some good in every attraction, but there is a process of refining attraction, of choosing what to love, so that we are energized by a wider, purer love
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To fully appreciate the music, you have to see the misery.
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For where shall a man turn who has no money? Where can he go? Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand. Like a tethered goat, so far and no farther. Only money can make the rope stretch, only money.
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I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.
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We must not be frightened nor cajoled/ into accepting evil as deliverance from evil./ We must go on struggling to be human,/ though monsters of abstractions/ police and threaten us.
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Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?
