Chuck Klosterman Quotes
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
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There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
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Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
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The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'
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We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills. It's in the House rules.
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.
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I thrive with fashion and shopping and imports and things like that. It gives me a rush. I love Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus and all the top-of-the-line houses.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.
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Music is like the soul of the planet.
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I see Earth! It is so beautiful!
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I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
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When you return to your homes rise up to the height of a generation of men worthy of a free Government, and we will carry out the great work we have commenced. I return to you my sincere thanks, soldiers, for the honor you have done me this afternoon.
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I wanted to sign up and fight with you guys, but they told me I was too old.
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Patsy Cline belongs shoulder-to-shoulder with Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.
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"Chaunt in his ear delusions magical, That he may fight the horses of the sea." The Druids took them to their mystery, And chaunted for three days.
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Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.
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The healthy life is hardly one marked by an absence of crises. In fact, an individual's psychological health is distinguished by how early he or she can meet crisis.
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We smooch hardcore.
