Charles Bukowski Quotes
The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It's truly ridiculous.
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything, it's more to do with drinking and smoking. it's an art piece.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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I have a great office.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.
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I worked with people I admire; Josh Lucas, who I'd worked with many many years ago on a pilot called The Class of 61 and Kurt Russell, and so there were a variety of different people that I enjoyed working with.
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The people say I have to change? Well, the people have to tell me what I should do to change.
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Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
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Through an image, people are able to communicate how they're feeling, making even the most invisible struggles more visible to friends and family.
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I still see myself as young, the same guy I was before I ever won the Heisman. Hopefully my friends still feel I'm the same way. I just want people to know I'm still the same person I've always been.
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The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It's truly ridiculous.
