Charles Bukowski Quotes
Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.
Quotes to Explore
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.
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Presence is more than just being there.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.
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I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
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Atari collapsed in '84, and I went freelance, and that was when I started spreading out and doing my own thing. I really cut loose and did a game called 'Trust and Betrayal', which was the first game solely about interpersonal relationships.
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Those of us who have yet to find philanthropy may find there is a far greater reward from it than from wealth creation.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
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If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.
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Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.
