Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.

Chuck Palahniuk

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CultureWithoutGhostSeemsObserve

This unchecked spending is growing faster than our economy, faster than inflation, and far beyond our means to sustain it.

Jim Nussle

GrowingBeyondEconomyInflationFar

I usually work from the inside out but sometimes in comedy it's fun to work from the outside in.

Michael Chiklis

WorkFunComedySometimesOutside

Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions.

John Yoo

EnemyNeverStandardsFacesOnly

Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.

Steve Irwin

BackSingleEarnCrocodileHunter

Having a better and more productive life than my monster father has been my most significant accomplishment.

Stephen Hunter

LifeFatherAccomplishmentBetter

Choreographers use me as the old guy who still dances. Not that I put on white tights.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

MeWhiteOldGuyStillWho

It's time that Americans dealt seriously with guns, getting in place strong and appropriate measures - there is no excuse for anything but the strictest controls.

Jay Parini

TimeStrongPlaceSeriouslyAnything

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

Josh Lucas

LoveBusinessCreativityPeoplePush

Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.

Jon Meacham

ReligionIdentitySayQuestioning

In order to describe a particular subculture, you might want to portray people who are typical or representative of that subculture; but to dramatize it, to make it an interesting setting for a story, you want to bring someone anomalous into that setting, to see how she conforms to it, and it to her.

Jonathan Dee

PeopleStoryInterestingSomeoneYou

Protest is political. It is as political as what our conception of America is.

DeRay Mckesson

PoliticalAmericaProtestOur

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

Desmond Tutu

PeopleTryingYouWhiteGoodness

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