Chuck Klosterman Quotes
...I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as "the sport of the future" since 1977. Thankfully, that future dystopia has never come.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
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I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.
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I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
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I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
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In my experience, working as an intelligence analyst with my own pool of sources numbering close to 100, by far the most effective forms of human intelligence collection are rapport-building and direct questioning.
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One of the laudable by-products of the Freudian quackery is the discovery that lying, in most cases, is involuntary and inevitable--that the liar can no more avoid it than he can avoid blinking his eyes when a light flashes or jumping when a bomb goes off behind him.
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Whenever a person dwells chiefly, or even frequently, on the faults of other people's religions, he is in a bad condition.
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Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.
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...I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as "the sport of the future" since 1977. Thankfully, that future dystopia has never come.
