Charles Stross Quotes
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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Papa died when he was 77.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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Personally I feel, for me, it's tough to do Botox - but it's also tough not to! Sometimes, I think I need the help. Whatever anyone else chooses is fine with me - no judgment.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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People work hard.
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I'm quite an advocate of free trade.
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There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
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Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.
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Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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That's how most of us would feel. But the sport has a few deviants without consciences.
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I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.
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People have always wondered what my opinion on Stevie Wonder is. I say if he's so great how come he can't see? I mean, God doesn't make mistakes, just look at me for example.
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People ask me why I keep getting injured but I have just had to accept it is one of those things that happen.
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Had enough of my poetry yet? That’s why they pay me to fight demons instead.
