Charles Bukowski Quotes
When I write, when I'm going hot, I don't want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you're pushing it.
Quotes to Explore
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I couldn't go now to a brand that had a niche attitude like... gothic. I couldn't do that. Well, I could do it, but I wouldn't find it interesting, challenging.
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Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.
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If you're on a budget, Sweetgreen is a new chain of salad bars that are very good but inexpensive. You choose from a menu or customise your own, with some protein, a healthy salad and a great dressing.
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Politicians know that structural reforms - to increase competition, foster innovation, and drive institutional change - are the way to tackle structural impediments to growth. But they know that while the pain from reform is immediate, gains are typically delayed and their beneficiaries uncertain.
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My father was an outfielder in the Milwaukee system before he hurt his elbow.
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I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.
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Most people who are on the inside of a technology have no idea what it's like to look at from an end user's point of view. This is why they have focus groups. I'm really familiar with this because I worked 10 years for Hallmark Cards in the U.S.
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While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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My father's grandparents came from Norway and settled in the Scandinavian bastion of Minnesota. As a little girl in Tempe, Arizona, I daydreamed about picking cloudberries by a fjord in a fresh Nordic wind.
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I was studying communications and acting, and I decided over the summer that I wanted to work on my acting skills and perform in a pageant. I didn't have any other way of practicing, so I entered the Miss Rhode Island pageant. I ended up wearing a dress that was a $20 rental. It was too short, and there was a hole in the back of it.
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I always laugh to myself when I listen to some really big A-list star saying that they are just a normal person.
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Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista's tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
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No one can buy his share of 'clean air' in the market; one has to use communal mechanisms in order to deal with pollution.
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I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.
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Some of the smartest people in the world never talk cause they got more sense than everybody else.
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In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.
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The Populist Caucus is the only caucus in Congress devoted solely to addressing middle class economic issues. We formed the caucus because the founding members felt like there wasn't enough focus on middle class issues in Washington, and we're going to keep it focused on middle class issues.
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I've been an REM fan since I was a little girl. I would jump around to 'Stand' in the mirror.
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Life is too short to remain unnoticed.
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Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.
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When I write, when I'm going hot, I don't want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you're pushing it.
