Chuck Klosterman Quotes
If invited, you would go to this person's wedding and give them a spice rack, but you would secretly hope that their marriage ends in a bitter, public divorce.
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
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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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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
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A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
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I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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I hope the unionist parties, for example, who would be keen to protect and preserve the Union would see that it's much easier to do that if the U.K. stays within the Customs Union and the Single Market, because that would take away the need for any special arrangement, or bespoke solution, for Northern Ireland.
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You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself.
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Real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond waiting to doing.
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If invited, you would go to this person's wedding and give them a spice rack, but you would secretly hope that their marriage ends in a bitter, public divorce.
