Chuck Klosterman Quotes
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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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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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Everyone learns from their experiences.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.
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If we were humble, nothing would change us-neither praise nor discouragement. If someone were to criticize us, we would not feel discouraged. If someone would praise us, we also would not feel proud.
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I tried hard to imagine my poems or any poems as machines that could make things happen, changing the government, or the economy or even their language, the body or its sensorium, but I could not imagine this, could not even imagine imagining it. And yet when I imagined the total victory of those other things over poetry, when I imagined, with a sinking feeling, a world without even the terrible excuses for poems that kept faith with the virtual possibilities of the medium, without the sort of absurd ritual I'd participated in that evening then I intuited an inestimable loss, a loss not of artworks but of art, and therefore infinite, the total triumph of the actual, and I realized that, in such a world, I would swallow a bottle of white pills.
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On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'
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My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.
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The last girl I love will be someone I haven’t even met yet, probably.
