Charles Stross Quotes
Policing, as with all procedural jobs, expands to fill all the time and consume all the resources available for it.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to bribe businesses in another state to move? Which then causes the target state to use taxpayer dollars to try to bribe the businesses to stay.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.
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When I'm writing, I mean what I'm saying - there's a lot of me in each song.
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I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
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My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.
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People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
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In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening.
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When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
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If we can stop, listen, and think about what others are seeing in us, we have a great opportunity. We can compare the self that we want to be with the self that we are presenting to the rest of the world. We can then begin to make the real changes that are needed to close the gap between our stated values and our actual behavior.
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I built a great company, one of the - some of the most iconic assets in the world, $10 billion of net worth, more than $10 billion of net worth, and frankly, I had a great time doing it.
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Policing, as with all procedural jobs, expands to fill all the time and consume all the resources available for it.
