Charles Stross Quotes
She still believes in classical economics, the allocation of resources under conditions of scarcity. Information doesn’t work that way.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
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Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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My boys asked me to write beautiful letters for their ex-girls so they could get them back. I thought, 'I should be writing songs for myself.'
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I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
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I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a limit to what that accomplishes.
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That was more than a mistake. That was done purposely. OK? That was not a mistake. That was done purposely. When you have your staff taking the Fifth Amendment, taking the Fifth so they're not prosecuted, when you have the man that set up the illegal server taking the Fifth, I think it's disgraceful.
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The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer.
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Southern black gay and bi men are suffering from a self-esteem issue.
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She still believes in classical economics, the allocation of resources under conditions of scarcity. Information doesn’t work that way.
