Chuck Klosterman Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
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I will never sell Flipkart.
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I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.
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I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.
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They pointed out that the friendship between the two artists had always been a byword or whatever you called it. A well-read Egg summed it up by saying that they were like Thingummy and what's-his-name.
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When 'Men's Health' reached out and said, 'Will you be on the 'Today Show' and do a fitness challenge?' I said, 'OK. I'm not showing them anything they don't already know.' But I'm going to take what some would argue is a negative or not substantive and turn it into a substantive thing to hopefully do some good for people.
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I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.
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They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.
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It's peculiar what you remember when you're not trying.
