Chuck Klosterman Quotes
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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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No more slave States; no slave Territories.
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Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
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If we may not remain silent about evil in the Church, then neither should we keep silent about the great shining path of goodness and purity which the Christian faith has traced out over the course of the centuries.
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Let me say one thing to clarify my position. I think we can take distance from norm but I think we are also mired in norm, "empêtrés", I think you say in French. And I think the choices we can make are only in a certain struggle with the norms out of which we're constituted.
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I have very rarely written autobiographical stuff. "Greasy Lake" and some other works have some autobiographical elements, as does "Birnam Wood," the one I chose to end [this collection] with. I lived in that house and some of my feelings are expressed in it, but it's not autobiography. It was not me and that didn't happen exactly that way.
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I absolutely tore George W. Bush to shreds, despite the fact I knew the guy personally and I actually campaigned for him in 2000. It's our job to just call it like we see it whether these people are our friends or not.
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We smooch hardcore.
