Chuck Klosterman Quotes
And it occurred to me that people who don't talk about themselves are limiting their own potential. They think they're guarding themselves for some sort of abstract dange, but they're actually allowing other people to decide who they are and what they're like.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I've always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I'll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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Let me encourage you, if someone has wronged you, and you still get that cringing feeling on the inside when you see or think about that person, take it to God and allow Him to keep your heart soft and sensitive.
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Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.
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The biggest challenge is learning how to psych yourself up into believing in yourself as you walk into the Octagon.
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Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.
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Basically I don't care what people think of me. I'm not in the communications business.
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And it occurred to me that people who don't talk about themselves are limiting their own potential. They think they're guarding themselves for some sort of abstract dange, but they're actually allowing other people to decide who they are and what they're like.
