Charles Bukowski Quotes
We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
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The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.
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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.
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In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.
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In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.
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I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
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I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.
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I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old Testament tradition you find flames, the burning bush.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.
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As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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Here's the thing with the costumes for 'Mommy': Given the background and social strata that the characters come from, you can't really imagine that they've gone shopping lately, so we went for that very normcore, fashionless era in history, the early 2000s, which was completely transitional.
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Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.
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I was a weed. Such a skinny little weed. I just couldn't put on weight; I couldn't put on muscle. I was the oddest shape. And I thought that was it: that's how I'd look for the rest of my life. And I'd beat myself up about it so much. But you change an awful lot. You're 16. Your body's not even halfway to what it'll end up being.
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My ambition is handicapped by my laziness.
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Conscious experience is at once the most familiar thing in the world and the most mysterious.
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I think Superman's journey is to become comfortable on earth. Of course he's got his role as earth's greatest protector but he also wants to be as happy as he can and if that happens to be with Lois then he's going to find a way.
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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
