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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My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
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I think young artists are always inspiring because they are coming at worlds from a different point of view.
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The under-funded and over-extended United States Patent and Trademark Office does not have the resources to adequately evaluate the burgeoning number of applications, and too many low-quality patents are being issued as a result.
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I am committed to doing customer service for Craigslist for the rest of my life. The exit strategy is death.
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Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.
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We smooch hardcore.
