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Charles Stross Quotes

One of my earliest recollections is being woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning by my parents and sat in front of the fairly new black and white television, watching a grainy image of a man in a white suit climbing down a ladder. It was the first moon landing, and I became a sort of spaceman, as many kids were.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: british
Birth: October 18, 1964

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Morning Black And White Man Parents

We have to be able to go deep in games and save those guys in the pen for down the stretch.

Deep Pen Down Go Games Stretch

Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust.

Freedom Trust Learn Bad Authority

When I was much younger, I realized that when I was handling something very large, and I was on my own doing that, that my breathing rate would increase, and that would affect my ability to think as well as I normally would. So when that starts happening, I slow down.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Think Slow Doing Down My Own Own

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

Past Believe Regrets About

I was 16 years old and wanted to help my mom with the rent. There was a restaurant called China Buffet in Tampa that hung a 'Help Wanted' sign outside, so I went in and ended up hosting every Friday and Sunday for $6 or $7 an hour.

Mom Restaurant Friday Help Sunday

There are two possibilities: Either the kiss is a human universal, one of the constellation of innate traits, including language and laughter, that unites us as a species, or it is an invention, like fire or wearing clothes, an idea so good that it was bound to metastasize across the globe.

Good Fire Laughter Kiss Language

I grew up feeling people didn't look at skin color.

People Color Look Feeling Skin Up

As outrageously counter-intuitive as this might seem, the most hardened terrorists and criminals are often extremely willing to brag about the terrible things they've done, the unlikely places that they have been hiding, the important people that they know and deal with, and the plans they have been working on for the future.

Chelsea Manning

Future People Know Done Important

Markets love volatility.

Christine Lagarde

Love Volatility Markets

There's an old saying in politics: You never run the same race twice. Democrats are running the same race three, four, five times. It's an old ploy, and Coloradans see through it.

Politics Saying You Three Run Never

I did a lot of musicals growing up.

Growing Up Growing Up Musicals Did

I didn't picture myself as a movie actress. I began to think about it around college. I remember thinking, 'Well somebody has to be in them,' so maybe I could do that eventually. It's all been a surprise.

Myself College Think Thinking Well

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