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.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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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.
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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.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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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.
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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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.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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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.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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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.
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I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.
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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.
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Courtroom dramas can be boring.
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I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.
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The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.
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Language alone includes all the senses in interplay at all times. (p. 253)
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I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.
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It was not a good time for Aerospace Engineers (Boeing was laying off thousands of them) and I found programming more fun anyways.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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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.
