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.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Service
  • Leap

• Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • America
  • Politics
  • Personal

• Action is the foundational key to all success.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Success
  • Action
  • Key

• You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Amazing
  • Like
  • Characters

• 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.

  

  Ian Jackson
  • Great
  • Quality
  • Value

• 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.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Wisdom

• 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.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Work
  • Home
  • Community

• 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.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Men
  • May
  • Problem

• 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.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Life
  • Different
  • Picture

• 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.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Home
  • Learn
  • Same

• I've been doing African dance all my life.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Life
  • Dance
  • 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.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Time
  • Poverty
  • Injustice

• If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Fashion
  • Been
  • Psychiatrist

• I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Literature
  • Missing
  • Japanese

• I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Fashion
  • Like
  • Woman

• We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Will

• I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

  

  Tanya Roberts
  • Ugly
  • 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.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Mother
  • House
  • Child

• My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • She
  • Me
  • Mom

• The one I have the most angst towards would be YouTube. We had an opportunity to invest, and I just got nervous about the media industry's response to the unlicensed content on the site.

  

  Peter Fenton Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • Opportunity

• As I got a little older, I discovered Lori McKenna and Patty Griffin and found out how many other tools we have as songwriters, that there's storytelling and there's ear candy, and that there is a place where they meet, too, and both of those women are really good at doing that.

  

  Ashley McBryde
  • Good
  • Women
  • Candy

• My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.

  

  Jennifer Lopez
  • Happy
  • Parents
  • Singing

• The genetic systems is not closed, therefore. The genes do not simply hold information without any reference to the body’s living system. It does not exist, then - the genetic structure - like some highly complicated mechanism already programmed, started and functioning blindly so that once it is set into operation there is no chance for modification.

  

  Jane Roberts

• 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.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
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  • Fear
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