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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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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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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There are a number of World War II historians I admire: Cornelius Ryan, Mark Stoler, Antony Beevor, to name a few. As for generals, there are those I admire as combat leaders and others I admire because they're great fun to write about.
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I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.
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If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.
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I think I must be the only British actor who's played both Stalin and Trotsky. I need to play Lenin so I can make it a triptych.
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A lot of people put a lot of restrictions on their ability to develop. And that's fine for you if that's what you feel your limitations are, but I think it's wrong when you assume someone is not natural because you are imposing your limitations on someone else.
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I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.
