Charles Stross Quotes
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.
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As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement.
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I think coming East and doing something like Broadway would probably be a good career move.
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The way we remember people, even their beauty is all so subjective and a matter of perspective.
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I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.
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I'm not a big lingerie girl. I see it, and I love it, and I appreciate it, and sometimes I even buy it, and then it never gets worn. It just seems like kind of a wasted middle step. Either you're dressed or you're not. What is this in-between stuff?
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The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill, the start of combat.
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So we have progressed to the point where we can move politicians around faster than light. I'm not sure I see the advantage.
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I play. But this is what I think.
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A prime time to catch yourself putting on your personality is in the moments between sleeping and waking.
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Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come.
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Extreme programming is an emotional experience.
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Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.
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I do not believe in planning.
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By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.
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If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
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When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art.
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It's so difficult writing about living people.
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Music is a very communal thing, and it's been cool to see how different cultures have resonated with our music. It's been an amazing process.
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You got overdraft at the mythology bank.
