Charles Bukowski Quotes

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.

Charles Bukowski

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• Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Photography
  • Competitive

• When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • War
  • Mistake
  • Cold

• All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.

  

  Ian Holm
  • Acting
  • Role
  • Performances

• I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Music
  • Country
  • Think

• I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'

  

  Faith Prince
  • Good
  • You
  • Start

• I love a cool bralette paired with a high-waisted jean, maybe with Chanel suspenders and a good platform shoe.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Good
  • Cool
  • Chanel

• Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Want
  • Should
  • Because

• Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Opportunity
  • Confused

• My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Time
  • Change
  • Imagination

• Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • American
  • History
  • Night

• Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Love
  • Crime
  • For Him

• My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Today
  • Chance
  • Unhappy

• My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Father
  • Myself

• Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Experience
  • Words
  • Deep

• It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Thinking
  • Stop
  • Brain

• Facebook is made up of people you've met, but not necessarily who are similar to you. I have 850 'friends,' and a lot are acquaintances, not friends. I don't really know them. If I've met someone one time, how should they be influencing my feed?

  

  Garrett Camp
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Dream
  • You
  • Blow

• So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Food
  • Favorite

• Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Life
  • Rock
  • My Life

• New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures - from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Driving

• Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Society
  • Eyes
  • Morning

• I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Society
  • Relax