Chuck Klosterman Quotes

If I had to make a choice between only writing about sports or only writing about music, I would probably write about music. I'm not sure why that is. There seems to be more to write about with music, just because it's more of a splintered thing. There's more subgenres. With sports, it's more objective in a way.

Chuck Klosterman

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• Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Important
  • Why
  • She

• You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • You
  • Sports
  • Won

• I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Style

• I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Music
  • Real
  • High

• I would hope there would be a greater appreciation by casual sports fans of the incredible skill and passion of our players.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Hope
  • Passion
  • Sports

• The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Learn
  • Start

• When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Music
  • Important
  • Example

• This can sound as something naive. But if we are together in this union, it's because we choose to be one in many things. That's what makes the European Union experience so challenging and also a model. Why did we do this choice? Because we see that we share a common interest and common values.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Why
  • Experience
  • Together

• Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Why
  • Thoughts
  • Walk

• I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Political

• And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Music
  • Opportunities

• There is no reason why any public school district in our state should be on a four-day school week. If anything, we should be extending the school year.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • School
  • Why
  • Year

• It seems Palestinians can't win. The language of peace negotiations has always been predicated on a representation that Palestinians are violent and that is why Israel behaves as it does.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Why
  • Peace
  • Language

• No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Mom
  • Television

• Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • World
  • Writing
  • Girl

• If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.

  

  Manika
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Songwriting

• I know, in India, specially in Bollywood and the sports fraternity, there is a lot of negative media attention on prominent public figures.

  

  Leander Paes
  • Attention
  • Sports

• Rich people believe "You can have your cake and eat it too." Middle-class people believe "Cake is too rich, so I'll only have a little piece." Poor people don't believe they deserve cake, so they order a doughnut, focus on the hole, and wonder why they have "nothing."

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • People
  • Believe
  • Why

• We've gotten to a point where you can't be a politician and actually say what you're thinking because someone's gonna get offended, and God forbid, like, everyone's so sensitive now, it's ridiculous.

  

  Donald Trump, Jr.
  • God
  • Thinking

• Some people who know me might say, 'He's not a great example of a nice person; he's a malicious, tough and ruthless guy.' But when the day is done, as long as I've held to my values and been true to my family and my God, it won't matter what anyone else thinks.

  

  Dave Checketts
  • People
  • Great
  • God

• Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Technology
  • Design
  • Ambitious

• If I had to make a choice between only writing about sports or only writing about music, I would probably write about music. I'm not sure why that is. There seems to be more to write about with music, just because it's more of a splintered thing. There's more subgenres. With sports, it's more objective in a way.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Why