Charles Stross Quotes
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I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.
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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
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The world is always terrible.
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
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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.
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The great love of my life is music.
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Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
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Look, the justice system is made up of people. People have faults. It's not perfect.
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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.
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I believe that there are no mistakes in the universe, so I think it all happens as it should!
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Common sense to one person might be something different to another.
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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.
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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.
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It's so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is just beautiful color and gorgeous buildings that are so peaceful. You can roam around and get lost in the labyrinth.
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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.
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Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.
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We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.
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We've all had stress creep up on us without even noticing it until we lost it on someone who didn't deserve it, and then we realize that we probably should have checked in with ourselves a little earlier.
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I'm an extreme workaholic.
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The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne says, 'Easy reading is damn hard writing.' I try to pull the language into such a sharpness that it jumps off the page. It must look easy, but it takes me forever to get it to look so easy.
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But you begin to feel as you go on working that unless painting proves its right to exist by being critical and self-judging, it has no reason to exist at all - or is not even possible. The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.
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I killed you! And you didn’t even notice!
