Chuck Klosterman Quotes

I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.

Chuck Klosterman

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• Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

  

  Florence King
  • God
  • Beauty
  • Creativity

• Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • People
  • American
  • Immigrant

• I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Great
  • Eye
  • Detail

• The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Words
  • Water
  • Sound

• There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Woman
  • Poetry
  • Destiny

• I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Me

• I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Good
  • Realize
  • Good Old Days

• When George asked me to be the prequels, it was the same kind of meeting - it was very short and to the point. It was nice to see him after a long time, and we met in a hotel room.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Time
  • Long
  • Nice

• I get on with people. I don't hang out with people who aren't nice. It's like, be real or go home.

  

  Charli XCX
  • People
  • Real
  • Home

• Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.

  

  David K. Shipler
  • Military

• The Internet will continue to be valuable so long as it is the most efficient mechanism for transferring data. Bitcoin's value is the same: It will remain as long as it is the most efficient mechanism for transferring ownership.

  

  Fred Ehrsam
  • Long
  • Value

• Americans will not buy irregular-looking or oddly shaped vegetables!

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli

• Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.

  

  Christian Nestell Bovee
  • Great
  • Business
  • War

• I feel it is a blessing, a duty, an honor, that we give the love that we have, and we share the lives that we have with our fullest heart.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • Heart
  • Honor
  • Blessing

• Country music in the mid-'90s was a big influence on my career, and I played all the songs that are referenced in '94' back in my club days. Joe Diffie was rocking a sick mullet, and he was hotter than ever... just putting out monster hit after monster hit. It totally takes me back to those days, and it makes me smile every time I hear it.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Time
  • Music
  • Country

• I strongly agree with Vice President Gore that we cannot drill our way to energy independence, but must fast-track investments in renewable sources of energy like solar power, wind power and advanced biofuels...

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Wind

• Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Nature

• In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Different
  • Hate
  • Matter

• Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Friends
  • Happen
  • Strangers

• That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

  

  Sarah Caldwell
  • Music
  • Rehearse
  • Abstractions

• I had a very important personal point to make with this song I Want Your Sex. I just hated the idea that lust and forbidden excitement could only come with sleaze and strangers.

  

  George Michael
  • Sex
  • Idea
  • Strangers

• The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.

  

  Erich von Stroheim
  • Picture
  • Overwhelmed
  • Literally

• I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Strangers
  • Literally
  • Abstractions