Chuck Klosterman Quotes
The message of "The Winner Takes It All" is straightforward: It argues that the concept of relationships ending on mutual terms is an emotional fallacy. One person is inevitably okay and the other is inevitably devastated.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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I am not honest.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
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I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don't have the street smarts. You can take him.
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My witness is the empty sky.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
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I wanted to have no ribs. I wore what was called a waist-nipper in those days. My mother made it. It's a piece of rubber band I wore around to hold my rib cage in. I don't know why I always loved that. I guess I was a glutton for punishment. I think I was born one of those people who loved swords and fought in armor.
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I think woman is phenomenal, magnificent. I mean that sincerely.
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Sometimes doing a movie for a short period of time is better than committing eight months to a television show.
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Any gay person understands at some point that he or she has to disappear, to become invisible. That's very difficult. You somehow have to kill yourself. This is asked of people who haven't got the tools to understand that it's all a social construction, and that they shouldn't inferiorize themselves. This is asked of little kids. But I still live in the same outcome.
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Each country has its own way of communicating a narrative and, through that, expressing family experiences in emotional stories.
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The message of "The Winner Takes It All" is straightforward: It argues that the concept of relationships ending on mutual terms is an emotional fallacy. One person is inevitably okay and the other is inevitably devastated.
