Chuck Klosterman Quotes
If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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My favorite makeup look was for my 'Eyes Wide Open' video done by Torsten Witte. It was so dramatic and definitely captured the magic of the video.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
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There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good lefty hitter; he's hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you're more likely to have a better outcome.
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I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
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It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.
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The first Indy was definitely the one I remember. It's my favorite race I've ever done. It's the most memorable race I've ever done, for sure. Even more than when I won. I just remember everything about it.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
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I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.
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I always think I have a chance, and I always give it all I've got.
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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
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The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.
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If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean.
