Charles Stross Quotes
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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
Umberto Eco
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The world is always terrible.
Salman Rushdie
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
Victor Ponta
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The great love of my life is music.
Mandy Patinkin
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Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
Karen Mills
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Look, the justice system is made up of people. People have faults. It's not perfect.
Nancy Grace
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For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.
Iris DeMent
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I believe that there are no mistakes in the universe, so I think it all happens as it should!
Carla Hall
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6,000 people were killed, crippled, and wounded during the War of Independence. The economy was devastated - there was no milk, just milk powder. No eggs, but egg powder. Meat was only once a week.
Yitzhak Navon
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As a father, I believe that involving children in sports at a young age is generally, a wise proposition. I believe that healthy competition is... well... healthy; that sporting events foster a spirit of teamwork that far surpasses the events themselves; and that active participation keeps children moving and is good for their self-esteem.
Naveen Jain
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I have been able to have a family and to dedicate quality time to my two sets of twins and my husband, as well as to serve on the boards of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and Montefiore Medical Center.
Karen Finerman
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Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.
Ma Jian
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We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
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When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of water torturers let fall ceaselessly upon one spot of their victim's body, I loved the irradiate refuge of sleep. In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Of the many ways in which Donald J. Trump is disrupting American politics, one of the most compelling is his disregard for the established rules of communicating with voters.
Anand Giridharadas
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I always try to have my supernatural or fantasy elements feel grounded in reality so they're easier for the reader to accept and digest.
Alexandra Bracken
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Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.
John Ruskin
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The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate with Donald Trump.
Errol Morris
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I read 'The Hobbit' while at school. It was OK; can't really remember too much from there, other than the fact I was 10! I never read it again until the script for the film, but it has to be an amazing story when you know Sir Peter Jackson has made three films out of it.
Mark Hadlow
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I'm always nervous before starting a record because I can never sleep. I'm like, 'I have no good ideas, everyone is gonna see through me.'
Mark Ronson
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Margaret Thatcher assumed somehow that this would get the woman voter and all those juvenile male voters who wanted a well-regulated household with a woman who knew what she should be doing.
Hilary Mantel
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I killed you! And you didn’t even notice!
Charles Stross