Chuck Klosterman Quotes

The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces about what they think of Neil Young, or why they quit watching ER or whatever. And because of that, I think there's a lot of people who write about my books with the premise of, "Why this guy? Why not me?"

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• I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Different
  • School
  • High

• I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Change
  • Alone

• I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Enjoy
  • Look
  • Limit

• 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.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Up
  • She
  • Father

• Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • More
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• I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Myself
  • Present
  • Macho

• 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.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Up
  • Think
  • Want

• When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • World
  • Truth
  • Fool

• I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Men
  • Trying
  • She

• You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Work
  • Giving
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• If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Children
  • Aim
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• I'm not a god - I do bad things.

  

  Jackie Chan
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• I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Training
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• I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
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• However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • People
  • Women
  • Black

• Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Age
  • Colonial

• Effort should be made to see that the forum-type programs (the 'Today Show,' 'Meet the Press,' etc.) afford at least as much opportunity for supporters of the American system to participate as these programs do for those who attack it.

  

  Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
  • American
  • Today
  • Opportunity

• I respect women but do not necessarily believe that women need to compete with men.

  

  Ashish Sharma
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• You are responsible for how your life turns out, and your attitude shapes that life for better or worse.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Life
  • Attitude

• There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but I've never had any talent for that. I just do things and hope for the best. Say yes, take a chance, and sometimes it's terrific and sometimes it's not.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • People
  • Hope
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• The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces about what they think of Neil Young, or why they quit watching ER or whatever. And because of that, I think there's a lot of people who write about my books with the premise of, "Why this guy? Why not me?"

  

  Chuck Klosterman
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