Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
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I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.
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My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. It's very abundant. The fuels are everywhere. There are problems with fusion.
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If economists were to wait for careful studies before offering opinions about policy, we would never have anything timely to say.
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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
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I'm at the point age-wise where I've decided it's time to pass the baton to people who have several terms in front of them and have the energy and the excitement and the engagement that is necessary to carry it on.
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We need a Palestinian state - that is the ultimate goal, and this is the position of all the European Union.
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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
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I'm a random guy. I shake a hand and make a friend. I don't do egotistical things.
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Fear created the first gods in the world.
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There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
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Another stupid party last night; perhaps if larger they might be less intolerable, but here there were only just enough to make one card-table, with six people to look on and talk nonsense to each other.
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To find out where the origin of symmetry is would be to find out if God exists.
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Out on the street I was talkin' to a man.He said 'there's so much of this life of mine that I don't understand.'You shouldn't worry I said, that ain't no crime.'Cause if you get it wrong you'll get it right next time, next time.
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It's easy in this world, in this business, to get caught up and get jealous of people.
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So to me, Texas Hold 'em puts me to sleep. At least when you play stud, you can be funny as you deal. Somebody some day is going to come up with a Stud show that's going to work.
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When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.
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It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
