Charles Bukowski Quotes
'People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.'
Quotes to Explore
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.
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There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.
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Red lips don't look good on blotchy, uneven skin.
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Few players hit the swinging forehand volley as often, or as well, as Maria Sharapova.
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It's the biggest party in the world, and you have to keep the whole thing percolating, which is difficult because a lot of awards most people don't care about.
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Being true to yourself means living in truth with each person in your life. It means refusing to say or do something that you don't believe is right. Living in truth with other people means that you refuse to stay in any situation where you are unhappy with the behavior of another person. You refuse to tolerate it. You refuse to compromise.
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'People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.'
