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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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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That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each.
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Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.
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It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.
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Today you will say things you can predict and other things you could never imagine this minute. Don't reject them, let them come through when they're ready, don't think you can plan it al out. This day will never, no matter how long you live, happen again. It is exquisitely singular. It will never again be exactly repeated.
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She turned the key, never taking her eyes from him.
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I don't have a problem showing vulnerability.
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It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
