Charles Stross Quotes
Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.
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We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition year, 2006.
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A girl who is interesting and educated and can spark conversation - I find that extremely sexy.
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A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.
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Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.
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When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.
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First off, I could never become a doctor. Blood? Even the fake blood on 'American Horror Story,' I'm kind of ready to hurl.
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I either run or try to play basketball every day.
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I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.
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Nudity has never been a big deal to me. I sort of grew up with a lot of it in my family.
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I think charity begins with your family and you take it from there.
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'Community' is a comedy show, and one of the characters happens to be a Christian. I do think they have been very careful to make sure everyone is the butt of the joke for various reasons.
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I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.
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I don't want to just be a champion, and I'm done with that. I wanna be a lightweight legend.
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The alternation of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
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I don't think it's the responsibility of gays and lesbians to reinvent the family.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven.
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It isn't unusual to see children climb into a car every morning to be ferried to the front door of a school that's just a few blocks away.
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Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.
