Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.
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It's such a Bore Being always Poor.
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Radio is for driving.
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I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.
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Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.
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The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in.
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Being, in the testimony it gives of itself, informs us not only about what it is but also about what we owe it.
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I never got hurt when I was in Morocco doing all the horse riding and my own stunts. But on the last day on the last shot I slid off my horse and landed on my bottom. I did not get hurt but it was very embarrassing.
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
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I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.
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I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
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The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.
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Black is not a color.
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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
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I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.
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The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.
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My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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Over the years I have been kind of lazy, thinking my talent alone can do it.
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In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.
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Right mindfulness does not simply mean being aware; it is like creating a work of art. You can therefore trust what you are doing; you are not threatened by anything. You have room to dance in the space, and this makes it a creative situation. The space is open to you.
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There are certain people that you don't have to even work at extracting their inner life. It is just there and they're happy to share it with you.
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The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made; for they are the substantial part of the world; like as Anaxagoras and Euripides affirme in these tearmes: nothing dieth, but in changing as they doe one for another they show sundry formes.
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I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.
