Charles Bukowski Quotes
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
Ovid
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
Malcolm McDowell
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There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
Napoleon Hill
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Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
Imogen Cunningham
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
Rachael Ray
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Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.
Queen Latifah
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
Natalie Dormer
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I had been carpooling kids for 33 years.
Caitlyn Jenner
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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, 'If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(On airplane etiquette) Although reclining your seat is technically your right, just like free speech if you exercise it to your limits everyone around you will think you're an asshole. 18
Ze Frank
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Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.
Walter Savage Landor
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The monastic man is an artist.The philosopher Appoints man’s place in music, say, today. But the priest desires. The philosopher desires.And not to have is the beginning of desire. To have what is not is its ancient cycle.
Wallace Stevens
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All good niggas, all the niggas who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular ways.
Tupac Shakur
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Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Anton Chekhov
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Anyone who has followed the U.S. economy in recent years can tell you while corporate America and their wealthy executives have recovered from the last recession, middle-class families have not. About 95 percent of income gains between 2009 and 2012 went to the top one percent.
James P. Hoffa
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The most important quality in a partner is a sense of humour.
Clare Balding
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Before 'Grease 2', I was called the next Richard Gere, then after 'Grease 2', nobody would touch me.
Maxwell Caulfield
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The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe.
Kim Novak
