Dan Chaon Quotes
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence.
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Music is the only art that actually lives.
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I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.
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The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
