Charles Bukowski Quotes

Sometimes I felt that I didn’t even know who I was. All right, I’m Nicky Belane. But check this. Somebody could yell out, ‘Hey, Harry! Harry Martel!’ and I’d most likely answer, ‘Yeah, what is it?’ I mean, I could be anybody, what does it matter?

Charles Bukowski

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• Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

  

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• Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Culture
  • Way
  • Fantasy

• We did not become libertarians because we are altruists.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.

  

  Val Kilmer
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• In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.

  

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• The only time my workout goes a little haywire is when I'm travelling.

  

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• Miz and I have known each other for a long time, and we really know, like, how to get at each other's nerves.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Time
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• You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Peace
  • Yourself
  • Harmony

• I went to eight different schools my first nine years of school.

  

  Vanessa Minnillo
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• The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

  

  E. M. Forster
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  • Test

• As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • You
  • Height

• My acronym is WWSJD: What Would Steve Jobs Do?

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Jobs
  • Would
  • Steve Jobs

• We should go and ask the princess for help. She seems very nice, and she’s much too beautiful to be unkind.

  

  Tanith Lee
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• We discovered we are both pleasantly furious half of the time,When we're not just toeing the line.

  

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• When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living.

  

  Philip Gibbs
  • Search

• Americans should understand that 50%, or something like, of the kids in inner-city schools, often poor and often minority, don't graduate. And the ones that do don't necessarily have the skills to get a job. That is the biggest disgrace in this country.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • Country
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• What does it look like to build a city, state, or nation invested in communities thriving rather than their death and destruction? To ask this question is the first act of an abolitionist.

  

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• Yes, some women are funny. No, some women aren't funny. It's similar to how some women are tall and, you know, some women are short.

  

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• Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified documents.

  

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• I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of Christ and not by Christ's 'words and example.'

  

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• The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.

  

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• I'm a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Heart
  • Georgia
  • Peanut

• I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • Believe
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• Sometimes I felt that I didn’t even know who I was. All right, I’m Nicky Belane. But check this. Somebody could yell out, ‘Hey, Harry! Harry Martel!’ and I’d most likely answer, ‘Yeah, what is it?’ I mean, I could be anybody, what does it matter?

  

  Charles Bukowski