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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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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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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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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But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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We just compare our lifestyle to movies so you can relate to them. When I say, 'I bought a carpet from Aladdin so I could finesse and do magic,' that means I had to get me a new whip or I had to get me something in disguise to work my magic, to finesse, to get out of here.
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I had no acting background in my family and no experience of theatre. I hadn't even been in a school play.
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I don't live my life through my kids, nor do I expect them to live theirs through mine. But of course, they're everything.
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Why am I an atheist? I ask you: Why is anybody not an atheist? Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated. I resent anyone pushing their religion on me. I don't push my atheism on anybody else. Live and let live. Not many people practice that when it comes to religion.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I look at problems as opportunities and use every person, every incident, and every encounter as an opportunity to show a more loving part of myself.
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Live, shit, drinking and smoking should be the daily bread of all poets.
