Charles Bukowski Quotes
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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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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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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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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And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today.
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The producer, in effect, has to work as a translator. You form a very tight relationship with the director and writer from the beginning, and then you are constantly communicating to the various people that begin to come into the process, as you are trying to manage to hold on to a vision that needs to be communicated over a long period of time.
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I love the notion of there being a single group of Apollonian watchdogs down through the aeons, keeping the world safe from the malign (and far more fun-loving) forces of Dionysos.
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All Freemasonry should be disbanded in America because our organization has been infiltrated by the Illuminati and they have bad intention for America and the World.
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I wanted to explore what all this new-found wealth means for the different generations of Chinese who have to live together in this place that is transforming at warp speed into the richest country on the planet.
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
