Tucker Max Quotes - Page 2

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Obstacles are only obstacles if you see them as obstacles. They can also be called opportunities.

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If you want to be seen as courageous by some and hated by others, just say what you really think.

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I've come to learn that what really matters is the relationship, the quality of the relationship.

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I never felt pressured to create more stories, but dealing with people became really aggravating.

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Things always work out for me because I do whatever I want without worrying about the consequences.

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Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

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Two girls called me closed minded. I tell them that they are so open-minded their brains leaked out.

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I take a lull from my CamelBak and choke at its potency. It tastes like bad decisions. It's perfect.

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Whatever your favorite food is, if you eat it every day for a month, you're going to get sick of it.

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There are fun nights, there are crazy nights, and then there are those nights that make men legends.

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Listen to authority figures because of their position, but only believe them if they can explain why.

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The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't.

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Look at the scope of writers who sell stuff. I'm at the very top of the power curve in terms of sales.

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The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.

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Theatrical success is predominantly two variables: who the distributor is and how much money they spend.

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There is no number or level of success that would make me think, 'Wow, I didn't think that was possible.'

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If you make comedy, if you try and make comedy where no one gets upset or offended, you're going to fail.

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If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work.

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You can't do anything yourself on TV... unless you have a LOT of money, but you can do an independent movie.

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The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.

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Motherfucker. She leaves me no choice. Now I have to break her self-esteem, sleep with her and steal the shirt.

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The vast majority of all consequences, especially in 21st century America, are completely meaningless bullshit.

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This may come as a shock to some of you, but I have a slightly volatile personality. I don’t suffer fools well.

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I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore.

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Communication is not what we say, but what you hear (which is a lesson I wish our educational system understood)

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It is hard for me to be vulnerable, because I never learned how to do that. I was never vulnerable in a safe way.

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Usually, whatever people's particular political leaning is, they either think I'm just like them or the opposite.

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I'm not West Coast at all. I was born in Atlanta, but I grew up in Kentucky, outside of Lexington, in Winchester.

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I stop paying attention because as much as I love beauty, I hate stupidity, and seeing the two combined pisses me off.

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The only thing that someone could say about me that would hurt me would be something that's true that I don't want to be.

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Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as 'deserving' respect; you get what you demand from people.

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If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.

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I started writing because it was about making my friends laugh, and when you're talking to your friends, you can't bullshit.

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Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future.

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I’ve heard 14 year old meth addicted thai prostitutes say more prescient things than the woman that was supposedly a “professor

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Yinzer: DAMN!! I wish I had your balls! Tucker:"I wish you had a breath mint, but I guess we don't always get what we wish for.

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You can't fill your emails with crap, at least not with my friends, because they're brutal. If something sucks, they'll tell you.

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At some point in their life, everyone thinks they should go to law school. You may in fact think you want to go to law school now.

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When I give speeches at college, I don't tell stories, I talk about what it is to live your dreams and take the path less traveled.

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What people who don't create don't understand, is that once you take money from the machine, the machine [movie industry] owns you.

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Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong.

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I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.

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If people try to judge you or shame you for doing safe, consensual things that make you happy, I can guarantee you they're bad people.

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Halloween revolves around delicious candy, excessive alcohol, and horny women dressed as sluts. This also describes my vision of Heaven.

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I laugh at people who say things like 'I'm a good person, I just do bad things.' No, that's not how it works. What you do IS who you are.

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Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear.

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I think that there's a lot of guys out there that want to read the equivalent of chick lit, but really there's not being much written for them.

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No one wants to read a story where I saw a cute puppy on the street and I petted it. I mean, that's not funny. I only write about the funny stuff.

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I love women, I love alcohol, and I love combining the two. If God invented anything better than drunk sex with a hot girl, he kept it to himself.

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Yes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but everyone forgets the second half of that quote: the road to heaven is paved with good actions.