Charles Bukowski Quotes
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So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
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I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.
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For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.
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Death ends a life, not a relationship.
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There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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I think I started doing covers when I was... what, like 9 or 10? I would always do the songs that I wanted to do and the songs that my parents wanted me to do. You would see me cover every Adele, Christina Aguilera, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood. Then I'd have to do 'Sweet Child O' Mine' and 'Crazy Train,' and it was a really weird combination.
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Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
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No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
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Jews have a tendency to become comedians.
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The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.
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I feel like I don't really care about impressing other people. I thoroughly enjoy impressing myself.
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Alicia Silverstone from 'Clueless' plays the role of the quintessential buttoned-up beauty who still knows how to throw down. She's intimidating from a distance but happy to befriend the new girl and show her the lay of the land.
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Mr. Trump is proud to pay a lower tax rate, the lowest tax rate possible. He fights for every single dollar. That's the mindset you want to bring to the government.
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Kids know when you're pulling a fast one, storywise, and I think that even when they're being entertained, children want to hear the truth, just like adults do.
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'Baby,' I said. 'I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.'
