Chuck Klosterman Quotes
Soccer is like punk rock: The product is not necessarily terrible. The problem is the fan base.
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Nature is under control but not disturbed.
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Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
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If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.
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I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.
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To make an album like 'Love Letter,' everything's got to be about love. Everything has to have a great feeling when you listen to it.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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I just honestly want to do what's best for my health.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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People have a lot of strange relationships with food. There's a lot more going on there than just, 'Oh, these crullers remind me of my childhood.' We have a darker and more complex relationship to food.
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I'm interested in where I'm going and the people I am there to see. Going to Cuba was a great example of that, and the succession of going into Cuba, which is not a very easy place to get into, and playing music for people who have never seen a live rock concert outdoors like that.
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Dig until you hit rock. Then take out that jackhammer and go a little deeper.
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Soccer is like punk rock: The product is not necessarily terrible. The problem is the fan base.
