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.
Charles Bukowski
Quotes to Explore
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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.'
Sam Smith
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
Fidel Castro
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People say, 'Oh you're so good, and you're so young!' It's like, 'No. I'm good. Period!'
Zara Larsson
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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.'
Sam Simon
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
Warren Buffett
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Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher education, are naturally interested in finding out what they are getting for their money.
Derek Bok
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This be an empty world without the blues.
Ma Rainey
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'Fragile,' of course, was a very successful album for us, especially here in the States. It had a lot of solo pieces on it, though.
Chris Squire
Cinema
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Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.
D. H. Lawrence
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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.
Charles Bukowski
