Charles Stross Quotes
'Do you believe in angels, Robard?' he asked faintly.'No, sir.''Well, that’s alright then, she must be a devil. Can deal with those, y’know.'
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The world is always in movement.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.
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A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow.
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Faith Hill is a big role model.
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The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
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I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.
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Life keeps being a beautiful and frustrating experience.
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I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.
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Of all the statistics in health, death is the easiest, because you can go out and ask people, "Hey, have you had any children who died, did your siblings have any children who died?" People don't forget that.
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No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that on my own.
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'What will they do when they have only the herbs' he asked her.'Live or die as best they can,' she said. 'Everything truly alive dies sooner or later.'
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'Do you believe in angels, Robard?' he asked faintly.'No, sir.''Well, that’s alright then, she must be a devil. Can deal with those, y’know.'
