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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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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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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I’m not denouncing the church, and I’m not interested in people who want me to denounce the church. It’s not a church worthy of denouncing.
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I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.
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Once I discovered music and that you don't need to just use words but can add a growl to the melody, that releases so much more. I never want to make music for any other reason.
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I do not know why it distressed me so much to see an animal die when human death did not move me. Perhaps because they were more beautiful, and there is no corruption in them, while in the best of men there can always be found some guilt or wickedness which seems to have earned him death.
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I think there's a lot of people who right now are worried that people are going down frivolous paths, like inventing new social networks or new games, instead of inventing the cures for cancer or fundamental technologies that will change the world.
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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.
