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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The Western man declares that in order to be beautiful, a woman must look 14 years old. If she dares to look 50, or worse, 60, she is beyond the pale. By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility.
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There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.
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It helps enormously to have had a loving mother. Mothers can give their daughters permission to love their fathers. Mothers can help their daughters feel good about becoming mothers. Mothers can help daughters learn the value of openness and female friendship, especially when times are bad
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What I would say to young women is: Pay attention to the real. Pay attention to what you're really thirsting for. What do you really want? And I think that's much harder to decipher in a culture that has no interest in it. What interests me is, are we going to wake in time? Are human beings going to wake up to ourselves, to the incredible poverty that's on this planet, to what we're doing to the earth, to what we're doing to women, to what we're doing to boys? That's what's important.
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I want to be living out of a suitcase in a different city every day.
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Truly the jaws of irony are agape!
