Charles Bukowski Quotes
I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles.
Quotes to Explore
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
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In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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If people are paying money to see me, then I want them to walk away from the show knowing they had a really great time. I want it to be very energetic and to have fun, sad, emotional and uplifting moments. I want it to have everything!
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.
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I'm the baddest among the bad guys.
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The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.
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I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.
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I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.
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When Goldie Hawn wrote her memoirs, no one said Goldie Hawn was snitching. When Jane Fonda wrote her memoirs, no one said Jane Fonda was snitching.
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I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.
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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
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Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap.
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Your friend Will is a good man, too,but I fear he's no longer an archer.' 'It would have been better, I sometimes think-' 'If he had died? Wish death on no man, Thomas, it comes soon enough without a wish.'
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To find is the thing.
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I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis.
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I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles.
