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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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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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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It's always important for a coach to decide on the short term and long term - one factor doesn't block out the other.
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Among the group of people waiting at the fortress was a schoolgirl in a brown and yellow uniform holding a green eiderdown quilt and, by the loop at its neck, a red hot-water bottle.
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He isn't insane, he's simply as trapped in his life as I am in mine. That makes us friends.
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With all the effort in the world, the results of cramming kids are likely to be more ambiguous than we can predict, not because the child rearing was done wrong but because all such results tend to be ambiguous.
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I prefer to conduct my life based on how I treat people.
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I come from a family with big hearts, so I love to put smiles on people's faces.
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I really know why people need to be independent: because it's a life-saving matter.
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Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.
