Charles Stross Quotes
Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop.
Quotes to Explore
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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We're actually thinking about distributing 'Moon Over Broadway' on-line. It's tempting, because when you go to a major studio, it's sort of like a farm, you know? They make all the money, since it's kind of a buyer's market.
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Everybody has their struggles.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.
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Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.
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I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
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When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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I tend to listen to country music more than Cuban music.
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Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.
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I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis (sic) and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.
Gail Devers -
That's me, man - I'm a lover not a fighter.
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I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.
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Everything I experience influences everything I do.
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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one's true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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An Isaac Mizrahi fashion-show ticket signed by Steven Meisel. I rushed up to Meisel at the end of the show and asked him to autograph the card that had his name and seating assignment on it. It was an incredible moment when he shot the autumn/winter 2014 Moschino campaign.
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We continue to operate in a fast-changing environment driven by so much disruption, and in this context, we see significant opportunity and demand for Accenture's highly relevant and differentiated services.
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Chefs have only been able to work in restaurants, high-end cuisine. Why? Why haven't they been able to find other scenarios? For those chefs who want to do avant-garde cuisine, should they be finding their income in a restaurant?
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Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.
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Heavy metal drives me bonkers, it makes me want to vomit, heavy metal really is a pile of puke.
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Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop.
