Charles Bukowski Quotes
Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There's nothing to get excited about. They just know. They're saviours.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.
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Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
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My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
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I'm not bad-looking, but I'm not a beauty, either.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
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It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that.
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You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.
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I'm an artist, and I like art that gets people talking, good or bad. Criticism is good, too.
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Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There's nothing to get excited about. They just know. They're saviours.
