Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
For the rest of history, all over the world, people will be trying to save this same dead woman. This woman who just wanted to die.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I am healthy and happy.
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By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I want to have a long career.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger about a lack of jobs and concerns for the next generation.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.
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I learned in the computer game business early on that all senses are not equal. The best example is, you're listening to a radio play and you're driving down the road, and suddenly you realize you haven't seen the road in five minutes. It's because your visual cortex has been partying with your imagination, basically.
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If we don't give things a try, nothing will get off the ground.
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Good design is good business.
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Can man be free if woman be a slave?
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For the rest of history, all over the world, people will be trying to save this same dead woman. This woman who just wanted to die.
