Chuck Klosterman Quotes
I hate the point where you have to get off the ladder, or get back on. I don't know if that's a fear of heights, or literally a fear of falling. I want to be afraid to fall. That seems like a good fear.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a 'third place,' which is not their idea; it's the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.
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You can't say you love your country and hate your government.
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Robert was good at many things. Communicating with women was not one of them. “That’s not what I meant,” he muttered.
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The only time I judge an actor on set is if they're not failing; if they get it right all the time, I start to question it. I feel like it's too easy.
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I hate the point where you have to get off the ladder, or get back on. I don't know if that's a fear of heights, or literally a fear of falling. I want to be afraid to fall. That seems like a good fear.
