Charles Stross Quotes
Experiments in digitizing and running neural wetware under emulation are well established; some radical libertarians claim that, as the technology matures, death-with its draconian curtailment of property and voting rights-will become the biggest civil rights issue of all.
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I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.
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I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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I was a huge fan of 'Game Of Thrones.' I hadn't read the books but had watched the series from the beginning.
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My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
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I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused.
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Train at the same pace day after day, week after week, year after year, and that's the kind of running the body adapts to. But break out of that comfort zone with a little speedwork now and then, and the body will learn to deal with the new demands.
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Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.
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They [ Factory Records] are always looking for the next group, the next big thing, to bring the record sales in and for them to promote and everything, but Factory just sign who they want to, put records by who they want to out, package it how they want to, how they like doing it. It's just run like that.
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Experiments in digitizing and running neural wetware under emulation are well established; some radical libertarians claim that, as the technology matures, death-with its draconian curtailment of property and voting rights-will become the biggest civil rights issue of all.
