Chuck Klosterman Quotes
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.
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Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
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What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.
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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.
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People would look at me weird. You know, like, 'Why is this guy's hands always in his pockets?' But I was embarrassed by the size of my hands.
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I'm always driven to keep doing something different and better.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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There's no real music on television unless it's music television, and then it's expensive videos, which people like me can't do.
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The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality.