Charles Stross Quotes
I am sick and tired of reality refusing to conform to the requirements of my meticulously-researched near-future or proximate-present fictions.
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On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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I started out doing musicals.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'
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If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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Our greatest asset is the one we distrust the most: the built-in antifragility of certain risk-taking systems.
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As you travel through the Middle East what keeps on striking home to me is how similar everyone is, and yet the degree to which we can find differences to fight wars over. It requires a great deal of empathy, I think, between various sides to overcome this history and live in peace.
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Opportunities present themselves to me. That's how my whole life has been pretty much. I've been lucky.
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You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
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The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description.
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I am sick and tired of reality refusing to conform to the requirements of my meticulously-researched near-future or proximate-present fictions.
