Charles Bukowski Quotes
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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I've known Mark Hughes for half a lifetime. We joined Barcelona in the same summer of 1986, played together under Terry Venables and Luis Aragones, and have kept in touch ever since.
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My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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In May 2013, my lawyer Dmitry Dinze filed a complaint about the conditions at PC-14 with the prosecutor's office. The deputy head of the colony, Lieutenant Colonel Kupriyanov, instantly made conditions at the camp unbearable.
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I like how small you can be on TV.
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It's a lot of wonderful things about the Bay area and Oakland that I absolutely love. I wouldn't change being from there by any stretch.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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I'm always gonna be compared to the greatest cats that's in the game, but I lack a little bit less when I'm not as visible as other guys. So I live with that thought right there - yo, you still gotta work, still got more to do. One thing where I come from you gotta remember is, don't get souped up.
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I write every single day.
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We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.
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When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it is often inadequate. If this were not so, the concept of deception would be meaningless.
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Live, shit, drinking and smoking should be the daily bread of all poets.
