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Been Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
- People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.
- The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.
- Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by.
- I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label.…
- We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And…
- No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience…
- During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was disgusted by seeing…
- With every lecture, you’re forced to look again at every choice you’ve made over the lesson-by-lesson chain of your entire life. And after all these…
- If we can forgive what’s been done to us . . . If we can forgive what we’ve done to others . . . If…
- Most people would never admit it, but they'd been bitching since they were born. As soon as their head popped out into that bright delivery-room…
- Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.
- You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars…
- How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?
- you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?
- I've been choking to death for years. By now this should be easy.
- New carpet will exude poisonous formaldehyde for up to two years after it'd been laid. I know the feeling.
- Find value in what we've been taught is worthless.
- We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.
- Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless. Find good in…
- People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe, organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become. With the…
- In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my best efforts I…
- You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching. You wonder, if there had been a low turnout at the crucifixion, would…
- Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might…
- If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better movie.
More Been Quotes
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour