Chuck Klosterman Quotes

Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel.

Chuck Klosterman

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• And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • May
  • Experience
  • Changes

• The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Death
  • Religious

• Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Day
  • Nobody
  • Court

• There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Music
  • Technology
  • Problem

• Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • Safe
  • Turkey

• During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Remember
  • Fun
  • Childhood

• The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Up
  • Important
  • Play

• There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Mind

• I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.

  

  Gary Carter
  • Feeling
  • Never
  • Coaching

• It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Dark
  • Very
  • Southern

• I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • World
  • Mind
  • Brain

• Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Good
  • Great
  • Culture

• Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Me
  • Voice
  • Making

• Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Know
  • Weird
  • Beauty

• I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Men
  • Small
  • Faith

• A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Movie
  • Fear
  • Know

• Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • New
  • Fault
  • Globalization

• The whole idea of timing tests is a century old, from a scientist who thought speed and ability were tightly correlated, which they are not.

  

  L. Todd Rose
  • Ideas
  • Tests
  • Timing

• I love westerns. It's guys being guys. There's no room for frilly stuff.

  

  Jason Statham

• I think the most important thing is to take the long view on things. We live in such a 24/7, Twitter-fed, constant news cycle, and everything's a crisis, everything is terrible, everything is doomsday, everything is - if it doesn't get solved tomorrow, your presidency is going off the rails.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Important
  • Long
  • Live

• I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Long
  • Lost
  • Learning

• Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Experience
  • Context
  • Amplifies