Charles Bukowski Quotes
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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I would wear entirely one color: tutus, furry pants. It was totally outrageous. My family was deeply embarrassed to be seen with me.
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One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew that he wrote his own music, and he seemed nice, so I found out he was going to be in a practice room, practicing his trumpet. He'd already said he was too busy to hang out or hear any new people or work on any music, so I stalked him.
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Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
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I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.
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Probably the only type of cosmetic surgery I'd consider is having my bust reduced. It's alright for my current role in 'The Marquise' because it's a costume drama, which means boned corsets and a bit of cleavage, but it's a drag otherwise.
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
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Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.
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The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.
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The United States can't be sheriff of the whole world.
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Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.
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Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.
