Chuck Klosterman Quotes
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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I have all of the Apple products. Everything I've ever written, I've written on a Mac. My first computer, my roommates and I chipped in, and we got that first Macintosh - 128K. It had as much memory as a greeting card that plays music.
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There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but there's very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself, so we like to do that ourselves to help companies create more tech companies.
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I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.
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I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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My life is not perfect.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.
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Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.
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Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.
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Earlier, looking lighter or slimmer never mattered to me. Frankly, I didn't care. I had more important things to do. But when I figured that it's not that hard, and I have the time, passion and patience to take it up, I jumped onto the health-wagon. I started working out.
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But if we ask where precisely in the brain that point of view is located, the simple assumptions that work so well on larger scales of space and time break down. It is now quite clear that there is no single point in the brain where all information funnels in, and this fact has some far from obvious consequences.
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The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they?
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There's something about Shania Twain I just don't trust. I don't know, I can't put my finger...she's just too thin. I like my country singers to have the big hair and the big ass.
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It's important to listen to what scientists have to say, even when it's inconvenient, especially when it's inconvenient
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I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.
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This SimChuck is one suave bastard.
