Charles Stross Quotes
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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Reporters do decide what is news, but they don't invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC's Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt.
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Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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I just think it looks so cool when a woman has a dirty martini. She looks so powerful.
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To acknowledge that I am yet a sinner is not to deny that I am a saint but to acknowledge how I became one, by grace.
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It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that.
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Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point.
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Three women in my family, close relatives, have had breast cancer, and two have died from it, and still I never thought it could happen to me. I didn't even regularly check my breasts.
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Perforce, the family that preys together stays together.
