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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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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Israel's master strategy needs to be moving toward a regional arrangement that will enable a full normalization of relations with the Arab states and the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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I got my first whiff of what big-time adult literature was all about when I was in 8th grade. I got it from Mark Linn-Baker. You know - the guy from 'Perfect Strangers.'
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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
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The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. But often what appears to a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for in this way. So either the objective conception of the world is incomplete, or the subjective involves illusions that should be rejected.
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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.
