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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A mass culture is a culture which can be appropriated by the meanest capacities without any intellectual or moral effort whatsoever. … Liberal education is the counterpoison to mass culture, to the corroding effects of mass culture, to its inherent tendency to produce nothing but 'specialists without spirit or vision and voluptuaries without heart.'
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Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.
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It would be simpler going to an Olympic Games knowing you had to nail one trick that you've done a hundred times, and if you do it, you'll win. Or if you're a swimmer, if you swim a certain time, you will win. In BMX, there are no guarantees.
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If you think the world is all wrong, remember that it contains people like you.
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I was the first woman elected as secretary of agriculture in Iowa.
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It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
