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Stephen Fry reflects on how people show character when they act truly great, not just to impress others. He points out that homophobes try to make others share their fear, while most people just want to be themselves. He also admits that even though he seems calm, he often feels like a nervous jelly inside.

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“Real problems aren’t number-shaped, they’re people-shaped.”

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You are who you are when nobody's watching.

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The people I know who SWEAR THE MOST tend to have the widest vocabularies.

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My parents were marvelously educated people.

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It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'...

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If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?

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There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.

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I think I'm most nervous about revealing how nervous I have always been. People think me calm, confident, poised. Inside I'm a…

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People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

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The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. That, in erotic terms, is the Catholic church,…

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...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.

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

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Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

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People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we…

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Humanism inspires a lot of enthusiasm for everyday life and urges people to be better to one another, to work towards a…

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Alternative medicine people call themselves "holistic" and say it's the "whole" approach. Well, if it's the whole approach, let it be the…

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I like people who are as unlike me as possible, which is not an expression of self disgust or self hatred, but…

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Why should I be depressed? I've got enough money. I've got a job. People like me. There is no to be depressed.…

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Most of the problem I see amongst friends and I've experienced amongst myself is when people haven't accommodated the inequality that they…

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I think people talk about one love, but there is the need to love and the need to be loved are not…

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The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you…

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All the cold-reading clairvoyants and the nonsensical astrologers and absurd ESP merchants and other such people who talk about vibrations and energies……

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I met too frankly preposterous, if it weren't for their banal evil, politicians and pastors who told knowing lies about the evils…

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It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a privileged life…

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Picture this scene. A critic arrives at the gates of heaven. 'And what did you do?' asks Saint Peter. 'Well', says the…

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I really do believe that there are those who would like and trust me better if they saw me weeping into a…

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You think I have more than most people dream of? What other people dream of doesn't matter. I always had less than…

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It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will…

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People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. "Stephen," they say, accusingly, "you know a lot." This is a bit like telling…

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Stupid people like to delude themselves that while they may not be clever, they were at least able to compensate with feelings…

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The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the…

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We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a…

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I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying, 'How To Be Happy, by Stephen Fry: Guaranteed Success'. And people…

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I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to…

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Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some…

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Perhaps the greatest definition I think of character and quality is people who when they're truly great rather than making you feel…

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It’s the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now they will say we, with our…

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If you are hungry for food, you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information…

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