Charles Stross Quotes
Intelligence and infinite knowledge were not, it seemed, compatible with stable human existence.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
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I couldn't speak any English when I first left Russia, and Intimissimi taught me everything. The team was like a family to me - they showed me how to model and how to stay in shape. They really believed in me.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
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You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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Before going on 'X Factor' again, I felt like I'd tried everything else.
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No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.
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We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
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My fans have always loved my metaphors.
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I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.
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I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.
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I was probably singing before I could talk. Musical theater is my passion. If I could afford it, I would just do dinner theater and live a simple life.
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It is a sunny fall afternoon and I’m engaged in one of my favorite pastimes—picking chestnuts. I’m playing alone under the spreading, leafy, protective tree. My mother is sitting on a bench nearby, rocking the buggy in which my sister is asleep. The city, beyond the lacy wall of trees, is humming with gentle noises. The sun has just passed its highest point and is warming me with intense, oblique rays. I pick up a reddish brown chestnut, and suddenly, through its warm skin, I feel the beat as if of a heart. But the beat is also in everything around me, and everything pulsates and shimmers as if it were coursing with the blood of life. Stooping under the tree, I’m holding life in my hand, and I am in the center of a harmonious, vibrating transparency. For that moment, I know everything there is to know. I have stumbled into the very center of plenitude, and I hold myself still with fulfillment, before the knowledge of my knowledge escapes me.
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I've perfected the art of busting on people. That's how comedians show each other love.
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Education and the workforce: I think these two things go together in terms of human potential.
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Intelligence and infinite knowledge were not, it seemed, compatible with stable human existence.
