Chuck Klosterman Quotes
I doubt that pornography has been good for the advancement of society, but I suspect it’s done wonders for the advancement of computer technology.
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Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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I'm a Virgo, and I know what I like.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.
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I always revisit duality because I think it's a conflict we all have. I think we all leave our house and go to work, and we put on the cape and become superheroes. That's what we do. It's how we move through life and handle negativity: you do everything you can to stay away from it.
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My family is very international.
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You can only make money doing what you love.
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Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led to the Internet and lots of great companies and jobs, the basic work we put into the health care sector, where it's over $30 billion a year in R&D that led the biotech and pharma jobs. And it creates jobs and it creates new technologies that will be productized. But the government has to prime the pump here. The basic ideas, as in those other industries, start with government investment.
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I doubt that pornography has been good for the advancement of society, but I suspect it’s done wonders for the advancement of computer technology.
