Charles Stross Quotes
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.
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We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
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It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.
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I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.
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I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
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In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.
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I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.
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It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
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The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.
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We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.
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In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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I have always had extraordinarily good relations with very conservative colleagues. And that's not because I agree with any of them or fudge on my positions, but people feel I listen to them and give them the benefit of the doubt. I assume the best of people. And that, I think, is an attitude that is maybe rare in politics.
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
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In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
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When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if one hadn't been written yet.
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I need to create an environment where I can be my best self, and that means being unapologetic about saying no to things that don't serve me or move me closer to my purpose and the things that I care about the most.
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'Didn’t I have you executed last week?''I very much doubt. It.'
