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

• Without land, how can you have development of roads, highways, townships, etc?

  

  Kushal Pal Singh
  • Development
  • Land
  • Highways

• When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

  

  Edward Norton Lorenz
  • Cause
  • Butterfly
  • Swings

• If it were not for my firm belief in an overruling Providence, it would be difficult for me, in the midst of such complications of affairs, to keep my reason on its seat. But I am confident that the Almighty has His plans, and will work them out; and, whether we see it or not, they will be the best for us.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Reason
  • Belief
  • Providence

• Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Up
  • Death

• Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Friends
  • Think
  • Strangers

• 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