Chuck Klosterman Quotes
Mostly, we argued about who which of us was better at arguing, and particularly about who had won the previous argument.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
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I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.
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I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.
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I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I'm a tomboy at heart, too.
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When you are romancing a woman in a relationship, it should be poetic. It should have layers.
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.
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My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.
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The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant.
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The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
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The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.
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Fiscal crises often turn into financial crises, dealing a blow to the real economy.
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The floating world is the realm of the graphic designer
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I have always been more interested in persons than in people.
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You have to do your best to face every moment, because this moment will never come again. The moment that you are living right now is a very important opportunity to make your life vividly alive. If you want to live with spiritual security in the midst of constant change, you have to burn the flame of your life force in everything you do.
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By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.
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You should always have a pencil skirt. I think knees are the ugliest part of anybody's anatomy, so I'd look for ones that hit at the knee or right below.
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The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender
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I tend to judge a piece of criticism by how smart I find the argument. This, I know,, is not how everyone does it.
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Sometimes people try to expose what's wrong with you, because they can't handle what's right about you.
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Mostly, we argued about who which of us was better at arguing, and particularly about who had won the previous argument.
