Chuck Klosterman Quotes
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
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I need to put the right things in my body before and after I work out, so I end every workout with some sort of protein shake to help me get the most out of my training.
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Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establish their state, yet each time they preferred to revert to terrorism?
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What he said was: 'You obviously don't know where the bar should be, and you're only going to do a disservice by putting it anywhere.' And boy was that good advice. Because what he said was, you obviously don’t know where the bar should be, and you’re only going to do them a disservice by putting it anywhere.
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Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.
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History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy.
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The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.
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I think a lot of films do themselves a disfavor by putting in way too much information, and everyone knows what's gonna happen next, and no one can actually discover things as they go.
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By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.
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I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.
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To do a television show, one can be sort of spoiled. You get to have your own trailer, your own space - that sort of thing.
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'Moldova: Yes or No?' That's a great app, and we actually used the geo-locator on your phone, so if you are in Moldova, it will say 'Yes, you're in Moldova.' I'm so excited. People need that. That's the whole point. The whole reason you buy a $500 phone is to see if you are... in Moldova. Or not.
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I get I style inspiration everywhere: the streets of New York, magazines... everywhere!
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I loved being pregnant.
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Life does depend on accurate replication of molecules, and its complexity often requires that an enzyme shall accept one molecular species or type and transform it to equally specific products.
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We can't pretend that a Facebook friend is the same as a real friend you've shared times with together, both good times and difficult times.
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She was a young person whose reveries never were in retrospect. For her past was no treasury of distinct memories, all hoarded and classified, some brighter than others and more highly valued. All memories were for her but as the motes in one fused radiance that followed her and made more luminous the pathway of her future.
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Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.
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My uncle used to sit me on his lap and play "ventriloquist", only I wasn't wearing pants.
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There is a brief time for sex, and a long time when sex is out of place. But when it is out of place as an activity there still should be the large and quiet space in the consciousness where it lives quiescent. Old people can have a lovely quiescent sort of sex, like apples, leaving the young quite free for their sort.
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To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away / For one small Goya or a Daumier.
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That's like comparing apples with hermaphroditic ground sloths.
