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

• I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • You
  • Proud
  • Woman

• 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

• Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• 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 never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.

  

  Irving Harper
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Never

• Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Day
  • Movies
  • Museums

• 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

• Thug: You're gonna give us $10,000, or we're gonna break both your legs.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Thug

• Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

  

  Amy Tan
  • Time
  • Mother

• 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

• I turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for a something, version of myself, a heroine I could slip inside as one might a pair of favourite shoes.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Shoes

• I started my career as a swimsuit model. My first big break in America was 2007, 'Sports Illustrated' Swimsuit Issue.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • America
  • Career
  • Sports

• This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties.

  

  John Jay
  • People
  • Country
  • Band

• Video is a funny thing. It's one thing to be an artist, singer-songwriter, and use words and create pictures in people's minds. And then be asked to do video for it, to actually give a certain visual for your song.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • People
  • Mind
  • Song

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

  

  Stephen Fry
  • People
  • Homosexual