Charles Stross Quotes
I wasn’t exaggerating the national suspicion toward strangers. It’s a survival trait on New Dresden; they’ve been breeding for paranoia for centuries.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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I have a lot of friends who do EDM music; they had to tell me what a 'drop' was.
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It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.
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I've always basically done everything that's been offered to me. I'm one of the few actors who enjoy working a lot.
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I always had this New York fantasy of living in a glass high-rise.
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People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.
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People always used to say to me, 'Don't you want your own show? That'd be so cool if you had your own show.' I said, 'You know, it's not gonna happen. So – no.'
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I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.
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When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in.
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All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.
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My method is basically the same as Masters and Johnson, only they charge thousands of dollars and it's called therapy. I charge fifty dollars and it's called prostitution.
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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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A little bit goes a long way - it's true. And I sure am glad I went such a long, long way to find that out for myself.
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In the ongoing effort to combat Ebola, more needs to be done to rewrite the public-health narrative. It must move from one that has been infused with fear to one that recognizes the hope for survival that supportive care can offer infected people.
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We live within the environment. So that directly relates with our survival, our life. So through that way, more concern of well being of humanity, then naturally concerned about environment.
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I wasn’t exaggerating the national suspicion toward strangers. It’s a survival trait on New Dresden; they’ve been breeding for paranoia for centuries.
