Chuck Klosterman Quotes
In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that way.
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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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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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I don't feel closeted.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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Women are sacred.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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I only travel with one suitcase - Mulberry does an incredible one. I always check it; the TSA restrictions are so tricky.
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I am glad that our country is starting to have a serious conversation about how to repair our broken immigration system - it is long overdue.
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Young people are constantly absorbing - through media, textbooks, and policy - the myths of American exceptionalism; for black children, this means that what they are taught in class does not match the world that they navigate daily.
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I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin.
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In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that way.
