Charles Bukowski Quotes
Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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People say, 'Oh you're so good, and you're so young!' It's like, 'No. I'm good. Period!'
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.
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I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.
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I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.
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I happen to be unfortunately temperamental. No, my temperament is also, what you describe to rainfalls, the will of society, to combat a number of contradictions. That happens to be my creative temperament.
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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
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I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls.
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Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.
