Chuck Klosterman Quotes
It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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I find the business world hard.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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Fortunately, the leadership of black immigrant communities has always been present in all black liberation movements from leaders like Marcus Garvey to Shirley Chisholm to Malcolm X and Harry Belafonte. We know this is our legacy.
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I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.
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I collect many hats, but I do like Bailey's Hats, and I order them online.
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My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.
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It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.
