Chuck Klosterman Quotes
I think people's relationship with the concept of violence changes, and that to me might be a little more interesting.
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
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I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.
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I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.
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Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself and the way that I am growing older. I have eye bags and some people have proposed to me to take them out but I said no.
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In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists
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My mom was always my biggest teacher, my inspiration, my role model. My mom was just the most amazing person. She was like a bon vivant in that she just lived each day to the fullest. As soon as I became a vegetarian, she became a vegetarian.
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Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
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I think people's relationship with the concept of violence changes, and that to me might be a little more interesting.
