Stephen Fry Quotes
I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.
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I'm gonna have to start winning some of the matches to call it a rivalry!
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It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.
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I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.
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The laws of the colors are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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Half of the people in the world are below average.
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Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.
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The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary.
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In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.
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Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said the muse deserted him. And when I read that, it really had a profound effect upon me, sort of scared me. So that's why I think I have no right to assume that some thought is going to come... But I think, in my imagination, if it is it, there will probably be something else I'm interested in.
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You don't want to be conscious of everything.
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Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.
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All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.
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At the end of every tournament, to review every stroke and every hole, seeing what I can learn from the experience.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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You are not what you think you are, but what you THINK, you ARE.
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Our U.K. and Canadian corporate clients want better access to U.S.-based institutional investors and hedge funds to expand their shareholder bases and increase their ability to raise growth capital
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When we have practiced good actions awhile, they become easy; when they are easy, we take pleasure in them; when they please us, we do them frequently; and then, by frequency of act, they grow into a habit.
