Stephen Fry Quotes

Homosexuals are not interested in making other people homosexuals. Homophobes are interested in making other people homophobes.

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• I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Camera

• Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Important
  • Conservation

• I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Myself
  • Place
  • Broke

• I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Feel
  • Nurse
  • Secretary

• I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Important
  • Myself
  • Ego

• I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Short

• I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Work
  • Stand
  • Human Rights

• I just want to compete and do what I love.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Love
  • Want
  • Just

• I've never been in jeopardy, but being an actor is a pretty shady place to be because you never know where your next job is.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Job
  • Pretty
  • Know

• Eventually I just want to live a normal life. I want to get married and have children and cook, wash... all the things that I do now. My background is very normal and steady, and that's what I like.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• You know, you can tell the difference between a terrorist and a toddler. On a terrorist, the diaper is gonna be on the head, all right? That's how you can tell the difference. very loud applause It's upsetting. Unbelievable. They got absolutely nothing in common except both diapers are full of crap.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy

• Lois: Good coffee, huh?Emma: Lois, I think you're a very attractive woman and I'd like to sleep with you.Lois: chokes Gak! Ahem! You don't - coff - fool around, do you?Emma: No, but I'd like to.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Good
  • Sleep
  • Fool

• Study and in general the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Children
  • Truth
  • Study

• Thinking is my hobby. But sometimes you get to where you're stuck and you can't figure it out, so you just go work on another project. I always have multiple projects.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I'd like to have a family.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Family

• Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of privacy and invasion.

  

  Christopher Knight

• I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Technology
  • Spring

• The older I get and the more iconic the piece, I believe that it's wise to watch a bit and become inspired and take moments that feel so connected to the story and also connected to me that I feel like I can make a part of my own performance.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford
  • Believe
  • Moments
  • Wise

• I think, in effect, in most of the European countries, the total marginal tax rate is over 50 percent; that's to say, add on other taxes like VAT to the income tax.

  

  James Mirrlees

• When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don't really understand the complexity of the problem. Then you get into the problem, and you see that it's really complicated, and you come up with all these convoluted solutions. That's sort of the middle, and that's where most people stop... But the really great person will keep on going and find the key, the underlying principle of the problem - and come up with an elegant, really beautiful solution that works.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Problem
  • Solutions

• It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Band
  • Lifestyle
  • Bigger

• If you outsmart your audience, you're going to lose them.

  

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan

• People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• Homosexuals are not interested in making other people homosexuals. Homophobes are interested in making other people homophobes.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • People
  • Homosexual