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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Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.
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Nobody is going to buy one of our dresses because it will do, or as something to hide away in their wardrobe and wear at some dimly undetermined point. They always have an event of some kind in mind. They want to walk in the room and for everybody to think how amazing they look. That's the job, really.
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A woman is like an actress: she's always onstage.
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In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.
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Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.
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She still believes in classical economics, the allocation of resources under conditions of scarcity. Information doesn’t work that way.
