Chuck Klosterman Quotes
Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.
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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.
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I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.
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I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.
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Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.
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Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.
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We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.
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When I was a kid, Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell were mere blips on the gaydar; and they were both still in the closet.
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Due to my sometimes erratic behavior, my children tried very hard to avoid me and not do anything to set me off.
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We're allowed to have had a private life before politics in which we make mistakes and do things we should not.
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The metro section of the newspaper every day is full of stuff I can use. It's the greatest inspiration for me because it's full of endings. That's where the ends of stories show up.
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I love new places, new people, new ideas. I love cultural differences, and I'm fascinated by the truth - all the different versions of it.
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It occurred to me that cats were being held back a little bit. I thought, 'I'll give the cat human thoughts and feelings but not be apologetic for it. That would be very catlike.'
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The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.
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The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.
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Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.
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When it comes to being visionary in stealing, the Republicans do better than anybody. It's really something to see.
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The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
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It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife.
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Half a million dollars just to upgrade the car show I aint even detonate the bombs in the arsenal
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If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.
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It’s the future-fallacy trap: when your inflexibility on details causes mistakes in your planning for the future.
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Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.
