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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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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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?
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It's funny looking at yourself. You know how it is when you look back at old pictures? It's just funny looking back at yourself walking and talking at age 14.
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It's nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I'm incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I'm sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though.
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The best people to work for are me, myself and I.
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I know that when I watch TV, I want to be transformed and transported, not just by the characters that I grow to love over the hours and seasons of watching but also the world that it plants me into.
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She still believes in classical economics, the allocation of resources under conditions of scarcity. Information doesn’t work that way.
