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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The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.
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Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
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I don't think we would still be here if we hadn't gone public.
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It is better to be a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.
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It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.
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Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch.
