Charles Stross Quotes
'You grew up during the second oil crunch, didn’t you?' Sirhan prods. 'What was it like then?''What was it ...? Oh, gas hit fifty bucks a gallon, but we still had plenty for bombers,' she says dismissively. 'We knew it would be okay.'
Charles Stross
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
Kate Bernheimer
When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
Tasha Smith
There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
Kate McKinnon
I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
Irina Shayk
My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
Natalie Portman
Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
Ted Deutch
It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
Jack Black
About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
Gabe Newell
If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
Ada Yonath
Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
Yotam Ottolenghi
My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
Pamela Anderson
I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
Ed Weeks
Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.
Adam Kluger
I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.
Ian Millar
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey
I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
Garth Brooks
Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
Jack Kornfield
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
Fidel Castro
The inaugural of Ronald Reagan, with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. And that was the greatest thing. Ronald Reagan and George Bush. That was - I still remember like it was yesterday.
Don Rickles
I'm into short emails.
Denis McDonough
People are more easily manipulated when they don't have information. If you ensure that kids grow up without basic reading skills, math skills, and so forth, then you ensure that they can't act effectively.
Tony Kushner
It's not so much that I enjoy screenwriting, though mostly I do, but the difference is, with adaptations, somebody else has done the hard part - made up a story, provided the characters.
Tom Stoppard
Sometimes, I feel like directors look at me and say, 'I want to put that boy in the jungle. I want to hurt him.'
Powers Boothe
'You grew up during the second oil crunch, didn’t you?' Sirhan prods. 'What was it like then?''What was it ...? Oh, gas hit fifty bucks a gallon, but we still had plenty for bombers,' she says dismissively. 'We knew it would be okay.'
Charles Stross
