Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.

Chuck Palahniuk

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My family was pretty solidly middle-class. We had a furniture store out near Connie Mack Stadium, and when Dad died, my mom took it over.

Robert Picardo

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A chef and a restaurateur are different jobs: One is about pleasing people with what's on the plate; the other is about understanding the market. I'm a chef, but I think I'm a savvy businessperson, too.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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Even the National Bank of Romania doesn't have the huge resources needed to intervene in the market and keep the leu at an acceptable level, because they're drawing close to a floor below which the bank's reserves can't drop. The central bank has to wait for a moment of calm to efficiently conduct its interventions.

Traian Basescu

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People need to pay attention to their bodies and go get a checkup. If you do that, you have a chance to help illnesses from getting even worse.

Tony Dorsett

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I pride myself on having a really authentic music sound: no gimmicks, just my vocals.

Rotimi

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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

Michel de Montaigne

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When you start to realise how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

Jordan Peterson

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George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.

Brad Sherman

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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.

Bodhidharma

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I am one of those people who go with the flow, and thus, I have no goal in life.

Shenaz Treasury

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I started home-schooling when I was in elementary school because my parents were really busy back then. They didn't have time to drive me there, and we didn't have a school bus or whatever.

Rich Brian

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As a cell contains a natural intelligence by which it fosters the healthy functioning of the body, I, too, have natural intelligence that fosters the perfect unfolding of my life.

Marianne Williamson

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