Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
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There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.
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Sometimes you're famous before you're good.
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Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps.
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If you just can't seem to get ahead, you might need to check your priorities. If you've had difficulties setting your priorities, ask God to help you.
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The world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.
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We are a profoundly interconnected species, as the global economic and ecological crises reveal in vivid and frightening detail. We must embrace the simple fact that we are dependent on and accountable to one another.
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At the height of Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapons program, which nearly succeeded in building a bomb in 1991, Tuwaitha incorporated research reactors, uranium mining and enrichment facilities, chemical engineering plants and an explosives fabrication center to build the device that detonates a nuclear core.
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The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.
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A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country will betray his friend.
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I've spent a good deal of time in the Middle East over the years, lecturing at universities in places like Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and Morocco.
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To be a good musician, you need to give people what they want, what they need.
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After 'Boy Meets World' ended, I didn't know if I was going to be lucky enough to work on a show with as many talented people and feel such a family comradery.
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I buy Dries van Noten shoes. I love his clothes, too.
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Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.
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Whether it's countries or companies, it's about putting the best person in the job who can unite people and create value.
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The question for America is pretty simple: either we want a bunch of bureaucrats in Washington telling us what we can't do, or we empower American innovators to unlock things that we can do.
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A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.