Chuck Klosterman Quotes
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The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.
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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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As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.
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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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I would rather make feature movies because, let's face it, you take more time. You take seven days to do a show, and you take three or four months to do a movie.
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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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Not seeing is half-believing.
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To me good storytelling is about journeys. It's about people's journeys, people's discoveries and how they deal with those discoveries; circumstances that put people in different situations.
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It's easy to get lost in endless speculation. So today, release the need to know why things happen as they do. Instead, ask for the insight to recognize what you're meant to learn.
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I try to go out and do the same thing every night. I've been taught since I was a kid that the only thing that matters is winning.
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This SimChuck is one suave bastard.
