Charles Stross Quotes
Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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I need instant gratification.
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I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.
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Christians are being systematically exterminated.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
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It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.
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A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.
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Light is one of the basic areas that will give you comfort, but it is undergoing a technological revolution in moving from conventional lighting to semiconductor-based lighting, and as it does that, it is becoming intelligent with the transition from analogue to digital.
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For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.
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When desire dies, fear is born.
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I was determined to create my own identity. My first hits, in fact, were straight-up rhythm and blues. My voice was compared to Aretha Franklin's - though, for my money, no one compares to Aretha.
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Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.
