Charles Stross Quotes
Human consciousness isn’t optimized for anything, except maybe helping feral hominids survive in the wild.Charles Stross
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This can sound as something naive. But if we are together in this union, it's because we choose to be one in many things. That's what makes the European Union experience so challenging and also a model. Why did we do this choice? Because we see that we share a common interest and common values.
Federica Mogherini -
I've lived most people's dream by playing football.
Fabrice Muamba -
We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.
Said Sayrafiezadeh -
There's more to life than cheek bones.
Kate Winslet -
There's a kind of optimism specifically within Christianity about the world - about whose side God is on. Well, I didn't have any of that in my background. I had physicality and chaos.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
My mom has been my support system from day one. Admiring the type of person she is gives me a sense of what to look for in my ideal cheerleader when the time comes.
OMI
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I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.
Karen Gillan -
Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.
Lajos Kossuth -
Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.
Karolina Kurkova -
I am uncomfortable talking about the things that I write. It seems unseemly to me. I have no problem at all when I see anybody else talking about the same project, but I feel my work should speak for itself.
Aaron Sorkin -
I'm not the new Cameron Diaz. I'm not the new Keira Knightley, either. I don't know where these ideas come from. I'd rather be thought of as the one and only Laura Haddock. I'll happily settle for that.
Laura Haddock -
It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men’s attitude to women, and in women’s attitude to themselves.
Vera Brittain
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A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.
H. L. Mencken -
Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.
Rabindranath Tagore -
My nature is that I have to excite myself with a big challenge.
Garry Kasparov -
Distant lover, ooo, sugarHow can you treat my heart so mean and cruel?Didn't you know, sugar, that I dreamOf what I spent with you?I treasure it like it was a precious jewel, oh baby.Lord have mercy!
Marvin Gaye -
Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create Him.
Arthur C. Clarke -
It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.
Duke Ellington
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There are some very significant changes in the way the fluids are distributed in our body, the way our heart functions initially, and as well as our bone and muscle.
Laurel Clark -
My wife ... recently put me on a diet after suggesting (a little unkindly, if you ask me), that I was beginning to look like something Richard Branson would try to get airborne.
Bill Bryson -
Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.
Aristotle -
There's so often - in filmmaking, you're backed into something that already has these set parameters, whether it's a sequel or a book that people love.
Jonathan Levine -
Human consciousness isn’t optimized for anything, except maybe helping feral hominids survive in the wild.
Charles Stross