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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
-
Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
-
Action is the foundational key to all success.
-
You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I've been doing African dance all my life.
-
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.
-
If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
-
I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
-
I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
-
We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.
-
I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
-
My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
-
There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.
-
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
-
Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!
-
I like to have a sense of accomplishment through work. I'm busy golfing and attending activities, but I think of holding a meeting as playing golf. I think my approach is very good. I don't feel I lose a lot of fun things in life even though I am busy all day.
-
I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all.
-
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.
