Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I'm certainly not tempted.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.
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I'm happy with my commercial heroine tag.
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Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.
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I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.
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Bio-Technology is expected to play a major role in improving productivity.
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I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.
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I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.
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When first presented with the jumble of the periodic table, I scanned for mercury and couldn't find it. It is there - between gold, which is also dense and soft, and thallium, which is also poisonous. But the symbol for mercury, Hg, consists of two letters that don't even appear in its name.
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I had no interest in cinema until I was 24 years old. My friends had posters of their favourite stars in their houses, but I was far from a film buff - very detached from films.
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I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.
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I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.
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Playing football and presenting TV are totally different things, but there are similarities: it's exciting, it can go well, it can go badly... the difference is when presenting goes badly, it doesn't really affect anyone's life, whereas when you have a bad day on the pitch, it affects people's moods for a whole week.
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Speech at the Nobel Banquet (10 December 1979).
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Unnamed director: The script is too caustic.Goldwyn: To hell with the cost. If it's a good picture, we'll make it.
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I love all of my books. They were labors of love; I was striving to create something well done, and I do feel I succeeded.
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I couldn't resist. I went over and joined in, and we just sang the song together, ... They had no idea that I had written it, or who I was. I was just some weird guy who wanted to join in on the singing.
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Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy.
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Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.
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Closeness can lead to emotions other than love. It's the ones who have been too intimate with you, lived in too close quarters, seen too much of your pain or envy or, perhaps more than anything, your shame, who, at the crucial moment, can be too easy to cut out, to exile, to expel, to kill off.
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Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
