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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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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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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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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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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You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.
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I think acting is a gift.
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I think I stumbled upon a voice people associate with me with 'The Deal.'
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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.'
