Charles Bukowski Quotes
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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I realized that if I don't like something, I can change it. If I don't feel comfortable with something, then I have a voice to say it's not cool.
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I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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Gay nightclubs offer better dance music.
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In 2005, I visited my home state of Texas, spending time on a ranch outside the town of Post. Then spending some time on a large ranch outside Archer City. I was taken by just how few young people I saw anywhere.
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If I had omitted setting down something of that which has appeared to me as clear, so that the knowledge would perish when I perish, as is inevitable, I should have considered that conduct as extremely cowardly with regard to you and everyone who is perplexed.
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No social co-operation under the division of labour is possible when some people or unions of people are granted the right to prevent by violence and the threat of violence other people from working. When enforced by violence, a strike in vital branches of production or a general strike are tantamount to a revolutionary destruction of society.
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Infancy, n. The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, 'Heaven lies about us.' The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
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The first American insurance company was the Friendly Society for the Mutual Insurance of Houses Against Fire, founded in Charles Town in South Carolina, in 1735.
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Even with the sun beaming down on me I'm not sweating in my mind. I'm not sweating in my heart or in my career.
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I do a mean mouth trumpet.
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Value is created for the customer, and that allows our suppliers, agents and staff that work with Sany to obtain success.
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The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although they, quote, 'won.'
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I would play with numbers in a way that other kids would play with their friends.
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He stuck a camera down my throat....ewwww, I gagged!!! It was kinda funny though.....he said I have 'Acute Laryngitis'.
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You go into any recording studio in the world, and you see candles, lights, and that Apple light from a Mac.
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Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.
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The thing about breaking up when you get older, you just don't have the steam anymore. "Oh, that's it. I can't start shaving my legs above the knee again."
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I've never met another man I'd rather be.
