Chris Klein Quotes

You know, I consistently change in my own life so the roles I'm suitable for also change, and that's a really nice thing about this profession.

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• The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Up
  • World
  • Community

• But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Important
  • Think

• Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Kid
  • Really
  • Ever

• I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • People
  • Great
  • Live

• Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • People
  • Why
  • America

• There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Justice
  • Broken
  • Laws

• I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Writing
  • You
  • Working

• The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Relationship
  • Value
  • Person

• You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.

  

  Rand Paul
  • You
  • Party
  • Win

• Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Attitude
  • Teach
  • Him

• Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • People
  • Up
  • Balance

• I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Fun
  • Control
  • Find

• Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Life
  • Side
  • East

• I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Always

• If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • People
  • Writing
  • Movies

• I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Brother
  • Child

• I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Children
  • Family

• I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Children
  • Movie

• Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Expectation

• It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. I may almost say that the world now seemed created for me alone: if I shot myself the world would cease to be at least for me. I say nothing of its being likely that nothing will exist for anyone when I am gone, and that as soon as my consciousness is extinguished the whole world will vanish too and become void like a phantom , as a mere appurtenance of my consciousness, for possibly all this world and all these people are only me myself.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Life
  • Consciousness
  • Exist

• Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Men
  • Power
  • Poor

• When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll just turn to the middle of the book, to the middle of a chapter, and just read a random page and I'll know right away whether this is the real deal or not.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Real
  • Book
  • Random

• You know, I consistently change in my own life so the roles I'm suitable for also change, and that's a really nice thing about this profession.

  

  Chris Klein
  • Life
  • Nice