Charles Bukowski Quotes
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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When I'm directing, I noticed I'm not using my subconscious at all. I'm literally using the whole front part of my brain all the time. When you walk on the set, every moment you have to be there because something's going on that requires attention.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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I've seen a few 60-point ballgames in my time, but none of them had been done by the third quarter.
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Scott Medlock's portrait of 'the shot heard around the world' from the 1935 Masters is still being celebrated as a moment in Golf History. Imagine that!
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I've learned how to be a better performer on stage and interact with the fans, make it feel like a collective experience more than just me singing songs on a stage and feeling really detached.
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With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV.
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
