Charles Bukowski Quotes
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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I feel like a lot of directing is casting.
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The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.
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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job is because I couldn't have my family there - the family had to stay in town. I just wasn't willing to do that.
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Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.
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I don't think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think that hip hop's ultimate responsibility is to critique social structures.
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Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
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The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'
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One should not think, 'My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.' God can be realized by means of all paths. It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite the opinions.
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δῶς
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Ὤμοι, κακὸν μὲν πρῶτον ἀγγέλλειν κακά.
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I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love.
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I have to be honest: I think production is mad - exciting - because, of course, you're creating the record. When you're a singer, you're just singing. Creating the music, directing, and seeing where it's gonna go in production is very, very exciting.
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I've been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn't starving; I was going to eat the next day.
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Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.
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Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you. The one no one talks of speaks the secret sound to himself, and he is the one who has made it all.
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What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.
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You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.
