Chuck Klosterman Quotes
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As a kid, I got teased about my unibrow. Now I love my brows.
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If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.
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I think because Sport Lux has come in and leisure wear is a new thing, girls can sneak in hoodies and leggings and so on where they wouldn't normally - it has been proper legitimate fashion.
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An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.
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Nice girls aren't always what they seem.
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I work out every day. My friends say that I became an actress by chance; I should have become a gym trainer. I am the most grumpiest and irritable person if I don't work out for two days. You cannot have a conversation with me.
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I've had meetings with Fidel Castro. I've had meetings with Kim Il-Sung. I've had meetings with other dictators. I've met with the Butcher of Beijing. You know, I think it's important to hear, you know, each other's perspective.
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Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
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When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.
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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
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The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
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The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.
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I'm a very conceptual writer.
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I'm aiming to do what I need to do for acting and nothing more. I'm bowing down to acting.
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We've been back since July, but I spent some time with the family in the south of France over the summer. We rented a house with another couple and took it easy.
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We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory.
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My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
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Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility.
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Russia's leader, Vladimir Putin, has managed to retain high approval ratings despite his slumping economy by seizing Crimea from Ukraine and participating in the Syrian war that is destabilizing the Mideast and, increasingly, Europe and the West.
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My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes discuss the application of a compress or a wisp of hay under a broken limb, but not the bearing and merits of a political movement. I make gruel--not speeches; I write letters home for wounded soldiers, not political addresses.
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People like to say, "You're only as old as you feel," but it isn't true. It's just something old people say to make themselves feel good about their age. You're as old as you are.
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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Where was a boom box when you needed one?
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Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch.
