Charles Bukowski Quotes
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
Lady Gaga -
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
Sallust -
If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
A. N. Wilson -
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
H. L. Mencken -
I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
Walter Isaacson -
I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
Larry Bird
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
Ira Sachs -
You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
Bear Grylls -
For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.
Najib Razak -
It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
D. H. Lawrence -
I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
Odette Annable -
I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
Rachel Joyce
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There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.
Pat Metheny -
There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
Pat Brown -
There is a reason for everything.
Bailee Madison -
Mr. Obama is particularly well positioned to challenge Hollywood because of his special relationship with the media world's elites. They might be more likely to heed criticism coming from Mr. Obama than from any other president or member of Congress.
Brown Campbell -
I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role.
Eddie Marsan
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We shouldn't overdramatize the current disagreements with the Russians. They are real, but they're not really all that threatening. And the notion that we're moving back to some Cold War I think is really an exaggerated judgment.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Many of us have questions about what Trump's positions really are. We want to make sure we are on board with each other.
John Fleming -
We are one of the most tolerant societies in the world, and in order to stay tolerant, my party believes that we should stop being tolerant to the people who are intolerant to us.
Geert Wilders -
I was born too late to experience Apollo 11, though I do trek to Dad's house every time there's some space event. There's something awesome about crossing your fingers and watching a tense Mission Control room do their thing.
Andy Weir -
In terms of my own experience, my dad is first-generation, so his parents were from China, and my mom was born and raised in southern Illinois, and she was involved in the arts. My dad's a doctor.
Phillipa Soo -
Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.
Charles Bukowski