Charles Stross Quotes
Human consciousness isn’t optimized for anything, except maybe helping feral hominids survive in the wild.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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I've lived most people's dream by playing football.
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I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.
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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.
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There's more to life than cheek bones.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not designed to interact with society.
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Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
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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.
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Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.
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My nature is that I have to excite myself with a big challenge.
Garry Kasparov
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Now we've finally been able to give them a common home where they work really well as a whole, which is a relief. We didn't want to see them just trickle out randomly or even worse just sit in the vault until the next record or who knows how long. So that's the beauty of technology: We can get songs out to our fans whenever and however we want.
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I putter. I nurse old grudges. I fold origami while nursing old grudges. I think about the past. I wonder if there’s any grudges I should start.
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A winter without snow seems depressing, lacking.
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This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.
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Human consciousness isn’t optimized for anything, except maybe helping feral hominids survive in the wild.
