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?
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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.
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We did not become libertarians because we are altruists.
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Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
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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.
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I wanted kids to know that it's cool to be in a ski race in the morning and to go play in the terrain park in the afternoon. It's not one or the other.
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You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.
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I went to eight different schools my first nine years of school.
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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.
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As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.
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My acronym is WWSJD: What Would Steve Jobs Do?
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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.
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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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If we have nothing to do but service our own pleasure – because society has taught us that's all we're worth and we're exiled from positions of authority from which we could actually shape society – then we just become hedonists. Eventually, despite how great it may look on Saturday night, come Monday morning there's just purposelessness.
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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.
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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.
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I love a good Steve Martin, Martin Short scene where they're being super physical - I don't mean to compare myself - but I relate to their type of comedy because they do crazy stuff but come at it in an honest way.
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Liberation is no longer, and can be no longer, merely a national concern. The dimension of the struggle, as Lenin and the Bolsheviks so clearly saw, is international: its road is the socialist revolution.
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Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one.
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Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.
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Whether you're gay, straight, black, white, we all deserve the same rights. If there's anything I can do to champion the cause and further it, I will, shy of getting arrested.
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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?
