Charles Bukowski Quotes
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.Charles Bukowski
Quotes to Explore
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
Lady Starlight -
I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.
Magic Johnson -
My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one.
Warren Littlefield -
If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
Samantha Bond -
When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
Candice Patton -
Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
Yakov Smirnoff
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
Jack Kevorkian -
We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
Fat Joe -
Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
E. Stanley Jones -
The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
Forest Whitaker -
Sometimes directors may not give you words, you know? They may not talk at all! You've just got to use your radar to figure out how you can get to the center and not lose yourself, but still be directed at the same time.
Faith Prince -
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso
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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
Gary Ross -
My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
Harrison Birtwistle -
There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.
Ireland Baldwin -
I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.
Larry Flynt -
In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.
Malcolm Gladwell -
Courtroom dramas can be boring.
Laura Linney
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People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen.
Nancy Kerrigan -
I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.
Gao Xingjian -
If you love cinema as much as I do, and not many people do, and if you are focused and actually have something to offer, you will get somewhere with it.
Quentin Tarantino -
It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.
Ted Cruz -
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
Charles Bukowski