Charles Stross Quotes
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.
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If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.
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There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time.
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Few things are more commonly misunderstood than the nature and meaning of theocracy. It is commonly assumed to be a dictatorial rule by self-appointed men who claim to rule for God. In reality, theocracy in Biblical law is the closest thing to a radical libertarianism that can be had.
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I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.
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You need not search for the compassionate mind from outside. To know yourself, to know your nature, your mind will automatically be the compassionate one.
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Donald Trump has been horrendous, saying things are bad because of Muslims or Mexicans. This is exactly what happened in the 1930s in Germany, and it's gonna get worse.
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'You have an evil mind!''And this is a bad thing how, exactly?'
