Charles Bukowski Quotes

Money is like sex. It seems much more important when you don't have any...

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• It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Great
  • Important
  • Rules

• I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Work
  • Important
  • High

• Low budget movies make lots of money.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Money
  • Movies
  • Budget

• I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • Important
  • You
  • Questions

• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Great
  • History
  • Progress

• I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Company

• It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • World
  • Money
  • Fun

• Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • People
  • Important
  • Forget

• When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.

  

  Abraham Whipple
  • Money
  • Never
  • Prize

• The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Important
  • Service
  • Yourself

• I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Money
  • Way
  • Others

• Every kid has a laptop; everyone can make music, so in order to stand out, I think it's important to find that sonic identity, I think my sonic identity - and mine is finding these weird sounds that may not necessarily sound that musical, and make them sound musical.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Important
  • May

• Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Life
  • Live
  • Money

• We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Done
  • Credit
  • Gotten

• Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Important
  • Political
  • Justice

• There is nothing more important in life than love.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Life
  • Important
  • Love

• Amidst globalisation, trends are becoming worldwide, so it's important to take a unique approach to what fashion has to offer. Be yourself in the middle of it all; fashion shouldn't be 'try hard.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Fashion
  • Unique

• 'The Bone Season' is violent. There's sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, and he's 9, so I'm like, 'No, it's not happening.'

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Brother
  • Sex
  • Season

• There are also other areas. For example, culture. This is extremely important. We keep revisiting sport, judo, because I practice it, but other than that, there is also culture. Every year events that are in some way or other related to Russia take place in Japan.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Sports

• I never felt that I was typecast, but I was concerned about it. I certainly made an effort to take as many parts in theater and film that resisted that. If you only learn how to act a certain kind of role, it is very difficult to grow as an actor.

  

  Billy Crudup
  • Effort

• You can struggle for a little while. It's going to happen. If a guy hits .200 for a while, it doesn't mean he's a .200 hitter.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Guy
  • Struggle

• I wanted to write for Broadway.

  

  Cynthia Weil

• Money is like sex. It seems much more important when you don't have any...

  

  Charles Bukowski
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