Charles Bukowski Quotes
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We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.
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After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
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There is overwhelming bipartisan support outside of Washington that we need to finally secure our borders, enforce our laws, and stop the problem of illegal immigration.
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I would like to reconcile the church and the circus. I wanted to transform the theatre... to get my message across that there is only one God - the living man - the person sitting next to you. That is my religion. I believe that there is a sense to life.
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I love great lyrics, and I love the way it could shape a tune into a very unpredictable one, and I also like taking a great melody and putting lyrics into it.
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If you take the fashion out of it, clothing has a lot of information - about how we feel about ourselves, how we'd like to feel about ourselves, and what we'd like to be: If you show up to an interview in sweatpants and a T-shirt, I'm going to deal with you in a really different way.
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I think men are, like, repulsive, and I prefer being in a room with women. I think they're often just more interesting.
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I adore doing comedy, I think it's fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy.
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I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real.
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I was a little ahead of him but that didn't matter after awhile.
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I know the world is pretty intense, but in my opinion, there's nothing more perilous than being a teenager and watching a raunchy comedy with your parents.
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People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what small importance they are to others. [The human element]
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Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry.
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Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.
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I believe in comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.
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It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
