Charles Stross Quotes
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When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
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In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
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Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.
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Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.
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I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
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Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
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For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
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I am very honored and excited to have 'Devotion' released as the first DVD Audio disc... surround sound is amazing... The music comes alive and is so vibrant - it's unlike anything you've ever heard before!
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The systematic murder of Christians in the Middle East is a horrible atrocity, and all of us should be united against it. Likewise, we should speak with one voice against the persecution of Jews, usually being carried out by the very same jihadist radicals.
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I don't like clothes. I don't especially like cars. I have a very nice house. I get sick on a boat.
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Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
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I am my own mentor. I like to listen to myself to improve.
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The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
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I'm religiously opposed to religion.
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I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it has happened will anything survive.
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Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.
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I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes...
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'I think I've broken three (tha-ree) cameras today!' -Rolling Stone photo shoot
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O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.
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God is definitely out of the closet.
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The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.
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Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns in the United States, at least fifty million other Americans must agree with me.
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I've had a disproportionate share of interaction with jerks.
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Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.
