Chuck Klosterman Quotes
The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought this game was made precisely for me.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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I'm a slow starter.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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There are 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico. So, just like we're quick to go everywhere else and help, we expect that same of America for Puerto Rico. These are U.S. citizens!
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In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
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People have written about 'Sleep' as if it were some kind of record attempt, but I could just put repeat marks at the end, and it would be 16 hours. It's not about that.
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I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.
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Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.
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I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact.
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I've never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don't run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.
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The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought this game was made precisely for me.
