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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To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
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With Bitcoin, every transaction is publicly verified, so many risks are eliminated, including chargeback fraud or 'friendly fraud.' This is when a customer purchases something online with a credit card; waits to receive the goods or service, then requests a chargeback refund. The bank then forcibly takes the funds out of the merchant's account.
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The movies of our particular childhood were so great that it's almost impossible to recapture that magic, especially as adults.
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I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
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I like to eat and the only thing I've ever been addicted to in my life is sugar.
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The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.
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Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.
