Charles Stross Quotes
Most police work boils down to minimizing the impact on society of stupidity; of the remainder, the overwhelming majority is about malice and deliberate evil, but it’s still almost all stupid.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world.
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Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
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Be real with yourself in whatever area of your life and your game that you need improvement on. Once you figure that out, you just have to go out and work on it. For me, it's footwork. I constantly work on it, and it's a never-ending process.
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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came back and we went through the same thing here. She lives in Mill Valley; her group is organizing this event.
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Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it can be a clean pane of glass looking on the outside.
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Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.
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I used to work at a catering hall in Hauppauge. Anybody who works as a server in a catering hall, more power to you, but I wanted to make music.
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I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged two and a half books a year.
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The more you go to a theatre and the more you hear stories you aren't necessarily familiar with, the more open you become.
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Most police work boils down to minimizing the impact on society of stupidity; of the remainder, the overwhelming majority is about malice and deliberate evil, but it’s still almost all stupid.
