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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If you have difficulty sleeping or are not getting enough sleep or sleep of good quality, you need to learn the basics of sleep hygiene, make appropriate changes, and possibly consult a sleep expert.
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I got really into Martin Scorsese as a teenager, so then it was kind of the whole reason I wanted to be an actor. Just like tons of young actors, I think, get freaked out by the Scorsese/DeNiro movies. I loved all his movies in the '90s, too. Then I got a part in 'The Aviator' and couldn't believe it.
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At 52 and unaltered, people tell me I look good for my age. This is not the same as being told you're beautiful.
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You don't really see ugly people that are old, or a bit grotty and smelly, in the media. If a Martian came down, they would think we were all tall, thin, attractive and wealthy.
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I grew up having to piss in a bucket ’cos there was no indoor shitter, and now I have these computerised Japanese super-loo things that have heated seats and wash and blow-dry your arse at the touch of a button. Give it a couple of years and I’ll have a bog with a robot arm that pulls out my turds, so I don’t have to strain.
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It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
