Charles Stross Quotes
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
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It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.
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For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.
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Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
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To lead people walk behind them.
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The smaller the function, the greater the management.
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In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts.
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I should probably confess that ice cream is my favorite food, and I eat it every night. When I go grocery shopping, I try to buy a new flavor, rather than reverting back to a favorite flavor. I'm on a mission to taste every flavor of ice cream out there!
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I hate political correctness.
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The sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM.
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I'm a natural blonde. I was a towhead as a kid, and then it got ashier when I was 18.
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We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.
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Man has traditionally ruled the social sphere; feminism tells him to move over and share his power. But woman rules the sexual and emotional sphere, and there she has no rival. Victim ideology, a caricature of social history, blocks women from recognition of their dominance in the deepest, most important realm.
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The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.
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It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.
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The Gaza sniper deserves a decoration, and the photographer a demerit.
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Any man who stands for progress has to criticize, disbelieve and challenge every item of the old faith. Item by item he has to reason out every nook and corner of the prevailing faith. If after considerable reasoning one is led to believe in any theory or philosophy, his faith is welcomed. His reasoning can be mistaken, wrong, misled and sometimes fallacious. But he is liable to correction because reason is the guiding star of his life. But mere faith and blind faith is dangerous: it dulls the brain, and makes a man reactionary.
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Michael John's music is soul-stirring. It gets inside the deepest part of you; it's almost a chemical reaction.
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For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.
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Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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Truly the jaws of irony are agape!
