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.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Democracy
  • Serious
  • Moral

• 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
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  • Way
  • Fantasy

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

  

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

  

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

  

  Vanessa Minnillo
  • Different
  • School
  • Years

• 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
  • Friends
  • Affection
  • Test

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

  

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

  

  Tanith Lee
  • She
  • Help
  • Beautiful

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

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Time

• 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.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Death
  • City
  • Question

• 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.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Women
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• Shop on your travels; that way, you can have an exclusive wardrobe.

  

  Anita Hassanandani Reddy

• We live on the most incredible planet, and yet we abuse it, and we abuse it mercilessly.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Live
  • Abuse

• When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar.

  

  Jacques Pepin
  • Beautiful
  • Food
  • Wine

• I focus best and am most productive when I’m working in a friend’s empty apartment. It’s hard for me to work at home. Too easy to procrastinate online, too easy to be distracted by the state of perpetual domestic chaos that rules my home.

  

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  • Home
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• It's my firm intention to whop cancer into submission and I truly believe I've given myself the best start possible by radically overhauling my diet and by staying true to my motto, which is: Don't worry, be happy, feel good. The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was to turn vegan.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Good
  • Believe
  • True

• When I was 14, I came very close to becoming a gay teen suicide 'statistic,' but I then turned to music, my piano, my loved ones, and discovered that it does in fact get better.

  

  Blake McIver Ewing
  • Music
  • Gay
  • Suicide

• 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