Charles Bukowski Quotes
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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As the platform and protocol become more ingrained in society, get built into products and services, and basically become more of the mesh of society, just like the Internet, companies and people will need to own Bitcoin to play on its rails.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.
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Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.
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A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world
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Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
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We need to eat and enjoy it but control it. That's what I do now.
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I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.
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The mind wraps itself around a poem. It is almost sensual, particularly if you work on a computer. You can turn the poem round and about and upside down, dancing with it a kind of bolero of two snakes twisting and coiling, until the poem has found its right and proper shape.
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In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.
