Chuck Klosterman Quotes
People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come to feel like a one-size-fits-all aesthetic: tilework, white Berber rugs, woolen tribal throw pillows in reds and ochers, cut-metal lanterns.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.
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I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
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I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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Yeah, the material's been good so far, although I'm sure there's got to be a drought coming someday.
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I feel about John's gospel like I feel about my wife; I love her very much, but I wouldn't claim to understand her.
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This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.
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My wife and I are raising five children, and it's tough between two people, let alone with one that's working full-time and is stressed out and coming home to a lot of difficulties.
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Expanding your notion of fun beyond a two-week vacation in Maui increases the chances you'll have more of it.
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People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation.
