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Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?


Chuck Palahniuk

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I’d like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We're doing a lot of different stuff. We're not just doing the stuff we did last year. I don't want ...
ERIK AINGE The good characters in my book are loosely based on folks I know. All the bad stuff is made up.
MIKE BOVE The leg is not too bad and I am just doing rehab stuff at the moment, trying to make it strong,
ANTHONY GARDNER We all got pushed into doing some bad stuff. And some people would blame all of that stuff on their ...
CHRISTINE WHITMARSH It says that if I die while doing this tattoo, they're not responsible but they get all my stuff.
SEBASTIEN LEFEBVRE Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is ...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me...
MICHAEL CAINE Life is not a bowl full of cherries, there's good and bad stuff.
FUZZY ZOELLER A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart."
— Chuck Palahniuk, ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Whatever they're doing now, and we're trying to get a pretty good idea of what they're doing, they'r...
TOM BRADY We started doing some stuff, just hooking up doing gigs. He got a little bit too far out from me. St...
JIMI HENDRIX The best place to find material is in real life. I've always maintained that it's not until ...
JEFF DUNHAM Things heal. Bad stuff happens, but you go on. Life takes care of it.
J. K. SIMMONS It's just a challenge doing live television every week; you know, it's a challenge to come u...
KENAN THOMPSON I don't know where we stand with that. Michael has a lot of stuff he is doing, trying to get his pro...
DAVID REUTIMANN I don't enjoy doing the daily stuff... but I would love to do something like the series that I d...
RAGHAV BAHL But it doesn't feel like a chore to me if you're doing such fun stuff.
JULI RISNER We're doing very serious stuff, ... But some of the stuff we pull with each other in between is not ...
JACK LEMMON We're doing very serious stuff. But some of the stuff we pull with each other in between is not seri...
JACK LEMMON I think were playing a lot better as a team. We're working as a unit instead of doing individual stu...
HEIDE SCHEID That's Susan. She's always doing stuff like that.
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DALEY THOMPSON All I worried about was what (Owings) was doing to me, instead of what I was doing to him. When you ...
DAN GABLE People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.
ALEXEI SAYLE I don't live a very posh life. There are no drivers waiting or people doing everything for me. I pre...
LIV TYLER We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in th...
JONATHAN IVE Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it.
CHARLES PLATT All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compar...
BILL BUDGE Now he is doing client stuff. Looks like he's been pushed aside.
GEORGE BICHER It's not important to how the band functions or to what we do. That's just many people's opinions on...
BRODY ARMSTRONG My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Be...
AARON CARTER When we were a club band, we always used to say, 'Man, if we ever see success, we'd like to open doo...
DARON MALAKIAN We're not doing brain surgery. We're not saving lives... Even if you're doing Shakespear...
JULIA STILES We just haven?t handled pressure well. You can weather some of that stuff if you can dump it inside ...
GREG WILT I like doing the action and the romantic comedy stuff,
MARK RUFFALO You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff alwa...
EDDIE MURPHY He says he won't sign anything because he knows what they're doing with the stuff, and I don't disag...
GALE SAYERS Work hard, earn a great living, get whatever you want out of life, have all the stuff you want. But ...
SANDY DUNCAN This surface is very good. Our players enjoyed it. It's the soft, phony grass instead of that hard s...
STEVE SPURRIER There was times when I was bullied about dancing and stuff. But you couldn't hit me hard enough ...
TOM HOLLAND It was good to sit there and ask them questions about the stuff that they are doing and what we are ...
DONNIE EDWARDS Someday I will die, but so will you. Suicide is bad? Says who?
NAVRAS NEGATIVEONE Now the question is whether or not you can come up with enough good stuff to,
CHARLIE WEIS These guys have been doing everything I do and more. I can't seem to throw enough stuff at them in p...
BRENT POHLONSKI We're unloading the best stuff we've got, which is good stuff. We don't have four teams to go compar...
KEN SCHRADER This is like a once-in-a-lifetime experience doing this ruler stuff. And it's something that we're p...
JOSE VASQUEZ It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears...
BRUCE GREENWOOD I want to just DO SOMETHING instead of ask someone else to start a process to investigate the possib...
CORY DOCTOROW Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they'r...
CARICE VAN HOUTEN Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you don't throw y...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do l...
J.D. SALINGER Some kids are always getting into trouble or doing stuff, and I stay away from those types. I know I...
FRANKIE MUNIZ I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started d...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff - fishing, canoeing.
GARRETT NEFF This is just as much fun as playing in the water. It seems like there is a lot of bickering going on...
GARY ROSS God will not turn away from doing you good. He will keep on doing good. He doesn't do good to His ch...
JOHN PIPER I'm just gonna be doing stuff that I really enjoy doing. I'm not gonna attempt to be current...
PAT TRAVERS I've never really focused on if I had good habits when I sang or if I had bad habits, or if I wa...
RODNEY ATKINS Denny did what he had to do. It looked like he'd been doing it for a while.
DALE EARNHARDT JR I hate chilling. I hate even the notion of chilling. I like doing stuff.
JACK LOWDEN Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Doing new stuff live is tough just simply because I pay my money, I stand in my seats, and I see the...
GARTH BROOKS This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO The JFK message of 'ask not' is not good enough for this generation. What you really need is somethi...
MAX STIER Most of my fans know I love video games. I say it in every interview, so they know. But one thing th...
PRINCE ROYCE Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad thi...
AMY BLOOM Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff. But just know Slim Shady is hip
EMINEM It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff app...
BRUCE GREENWOOD My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is...
AARON CARTER That kid is going to be good; he reminds me of Rocket. He's young, but that fastball, it's late. I d...
JASON GIAMBI Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to p...
PARMINDER NAGRA I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the ri...
SHAQUILLE O'NEAL You can't write about stuff you don't know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up y...
DIERKS BENTLEY What did journalists know of tech, anyway? Who gave a damn about the press? We were the Good Guys. C...
YUDHANJAYA WIJERATNE Doing this stuff is a crap shoot, there are no guarantees.
JOHN NICKERSON Huron put a lot of pressure on us down the stretch. Our ball-handling has been a problem, but we did...
KRAIG BLOMME You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked ...
FEMALE IMAGINATION I just felt like reflecting on my junior year, when I didn't know what I was doing, I left a lot of ...
MARCUS ALLEN Live the life you would like to inspire others to live. A life of kindness. Joy. Doing what you love...
LORRIN L. LEE People are getting stuff you wouldn't think they would be doing.
GRADY JOHNSON Trey makes me feel so comfortable doing a video. She makes you feel like you're just girls, hanging ...
MIRANDA LAMBERT If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that beca...
J. K. SIMMONS I guess my most prized pop culture possession is a signed first edition of the book 'Fight Club&...
JEN LANCASTER Whenever you feel that someone is angry or someone has collided with you, you always think that he i...
OSHO They're a great bunch of guys doing some really nasty stuff.
MICHAEL MCDONALD I'm a very private person. I like staying home and doing my stuff. I hate people invading on my ...
GISELE BUNDCHEN If you know your fundamentals, you will enjoy the game a lot more. Some of this stuff that I show yo...
ED SCHILLING Hi, this is a user adding an obviously fake quote. I'm doing this because I'm tired of seeing fake T...
TOM HIDDLESTON Live enough of what you've always dreamed of doing, and there's no room left for feeling bad.
RICHARD BACH Other players find out if you're not doing that sort of stuff. You don't want to take the 'I'm speci...
DOTTIE PEPPER I edit out the bad stuff and deliver the good stuff. Seventy-five percent of all wine is awful.
PETER MORRELL I don't want to be too strict, because I think kids can get rebellious, but I want to raise my d...
HOLLY MADISON Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Explorati...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then y...
JULIANA HATFIELD Judah was doing some Sandy Saddler stuff.
GEORGE FOREMAN I think, actually, if you want to know where Roberts is on a lot of stuff, Rehnquist is a good place...
RICHARD GARNETT It's not important to how the band functions or to what we do. That's just many people's...
BRODY ARMSTRONG The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly ...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things th...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vo...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The things you own end up owning you.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depre...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We just had a near-life experience!
CHUCK PALAHNIUK This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you thei...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you could be God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfec...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Masochism is a valuable job skill.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Which is worse: Hell or nothing?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distrac...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sof...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Real discoveries come from chaos.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The future is just wasted on some people.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t
CHUCK PALAHNIUK There’s always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Us. God's forgotten Science Fair project, left to grow mold. God's goldfish, ignored until we're for...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beat...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You are not special. Your are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I tell everybody, i'm tired of being jerked around, okay? so lets just not pretend. i don't have fuc...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK