Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong, again.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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I like new challenges and new experiences.
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I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.
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I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.
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Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.
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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
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I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others.
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I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong, again.
