Charles Bukowski Quotes
I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.
Quotes to Explore
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Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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I try to do my best.
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People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
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Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.
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I don't believe in the afterlife.
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I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.
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On Monday I come in and get in a full body workout, and then I come back in on Wednesday and do a quick six, which consists of bench press, biceps and triceps curls, pull downs, something for the back and the neck. And then you come back and hit it again on Friday with a 16-machine workout.
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I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.
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I would like to go down as the greatest receiver in this game. I'm not doing all this hard work for nothing.
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The Gospel is like water; no man invented it, yet no man can live without it.
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I'm in love with red. I think it's such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red it it. It's power, there's no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you don't. I think its blood and strength and life. I do love red. I love all colors. Great shades of blue, you find them in nature. They're all magic.
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What's most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That's the holy grail.
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There are two kinds of actors: those with one job too few, who have to take every one that comes along, and those with one job too many, who can always turn down the one they don't want.
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It’s one thing to go into parliament as part of a team whose words don’t match their actions. It is another thing to have your own political party of like-minded people.
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I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.
