Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

Chuck Palahniuk

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I got a pit bull from a shelter, so my whole life is centered on this dog, and I've been writing a lot of dog jokes. I should probably give up now, because I'm writing jokes about my dog.

Joe Mande

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I think that with these streaming shows, sometimes it takes a little time for everybody to - because they know they have time, you know it's up there - you'll get to it when you get to it. It sort of like, 'Oh, it's on my list.'

Amy Landecker

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For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career as a musician. It was just something that I did on my own time, just for me. I had written a lot of songs, but I don't really record a lot of music because, for me, it's the same way as a poet: I write to get things out. It's sort of cathartic.

Steve Kazee

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I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil. I'd go home and my home life was so miserable that it just felt like I was doing everything that I was supposed to do. I did all my chores, made really good grades, and I was excelling at school, but I wasn't happy.

Sonja Sohn

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Some people look at big things, and other people look at very small things, but in a sense, we're all trying to understand the world around us.

Roderick MacKinnon

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I try to ignore people's opinions about my music - you don't want to hold yourself back because of that stuff.

Julia Holter

MusicYourselfPeopleIgnoreYou

Kids don't see me as an oldies person when I go out on stage. They see me as an energy force.

Dick Dale

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I'd only read a bit of the first book. And I just knew about all the media furor over it. But I'd not read books 2 or 3. I'd just read a bit of it. And I'd seen the films.

David Thewlis

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I guess I've kind of had an attitude my whole life.

Christina Applegate

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I wrestled 23 straight years all over the world.

Bret Hart

WorldOverYearsStraight

I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload.

William Shockley

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The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.

William H. Wharton

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