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 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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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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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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We need candidate schools to recruit more young African-Americans to run for office and more diverse law enforcement communities.
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Just as our adversaries and threats continue to evolve, so, too, must the FBI. The key to this evolution lies with our greatest assets: our people and our partnerships. Every FBI professional understands that thwarting the threats facing our nation means constantly striving to be more effective and more efficient.
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You know what I want to do? Wake up one weekend and not have to go anywhere and do nothing.
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Getting stopped for drunk driving in those days might mean that your entire career was over then. Not today.
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C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs.
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Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.
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It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
