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 -
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 -
Black is not a color.
Edouard Manet
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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
Felix Frankfurter -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Worshiping the earth is more fun than going to church. It's also closer. We can just step off the sidewalk. And sometimes we can get impressionable members of the opposite sex to perform sacramental rites with us. 'Every drop of water wasted is a drop less of a wild and scenic river, Jennifer. We'd better double up in the shower.'
P. J. O'Rourke
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Ce n'est gue' re que dans les asiles que les coquettes gardent avec ente" tement une foi entie' re en des regards absents; normalement, elles re clament des te moins. Women fond of dress are hardly ever entirely satisfied not to be seen, except among the insane; usually they want witnesses.
Simone de Beauvoir -
You couldn't escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality in stage adaptations of Shakespeare and Brecht. I graduated from Yale. When I moved to the U.S., I realized with some amount of surprise that I was seen as an ethnic actor.
Satya Bhabha -
BaoHaus is idiosyncratic, creative, and artistic. My restaurant doesn't look like a Taiwanese restaurant.
Eddie Huang -
The growth in emissions is coming from the developing world. So if we are going to get out of this, it's going to come out of a process of cooperation and collaboration. That's why it really requires a paradigm shift.
Naomi Klein -
I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.
Charles Bukowski