Charles Bukowski Quotes
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It's such a Bore Being always Poor.
Langston Hughes -
Radio is for driving.
Ira Glass -
I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.
Hanya Yanagihara -
Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.
Fatema Mernissi -
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.
Irwin Redlener -
Being, in the testimony it gives of itself, informs us not only about what it is but also about what we owe it.
Hans Jonas
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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.
Oded Fehr -
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
Earl Nightingale -
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.
Gale Sayers -
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.
Daniel Craig -
I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
A. Scott Berg -
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.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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Black is not a color.
Edouard Manet -
The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
Felix Frankfurter -
I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.
Laurance Rockefeller -
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.
Malcolm X -
My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
The challenge is maintaining your interest over a long career, as opposed to pushing hard with no longevity. I'm surprised that I've been able to dance as long as I have.
Damian Woetzel
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There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music.
Kailash Kher -
I love Jidenna and Leon Bridges.
Tamron Hall -
We put on shows at Golden Gate Park with the Dead and Jefferson Airplane, and the groups were part of the community they emerged out of, not some superstars. We had multiple stages, diversions, communal entertainment. There is something slightly fascistic about sitting in a huge auditorium focusing all the energy on one group far away on stage.
Peter Coyote -
Why, what a wonderful piece of luck! Here is a red rose! I have never seen any rose like it in all my life. It is so beautiful that I am sure it has a long Latin name.
Oscar Wilde -
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
Thomas Hardy -
I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.
Charles Bukowski