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Charles Bukowski Quotes

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Charles Bukowski

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: August 16, 1920 - March 9, 1994

Topics

Time Democracy Voting You Vote Take

Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you'll get a much better movie out of it.

Andrew Stanton

Great Yourself Surround Yourself You

When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross.

Megan Fox

Love Relationship People Think Doing

The fact that we were encouraged to follow our conscience and not to follow the crowds - that's something I really miss. On the other hand, there were things that drove me nuts in the '60s. There was an aspect of the hippie movement that everyone is an artist, which is lethal.

Robert Picardo

Me Artist Hand Follow Movement Nuts

I think parenting is very different now. We're totally governed by our children!

Andy Serkis

Children Parenting Think Now I Think

I've got a chance to host a show called 'Redneck Island' on CMT. I love doing that show.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Love Chance Doing Island Redneck

My work ethic is crazy. I'm a producer, an artist, and a video director.

Travis Scott

Work Crazy Work Ethic Artist Video

Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way?

Judy Holliday

Work Work Hard Think Easy Why Way

When you've been a character in a movie - and this has happened when we've done concerts as Spinal Tap or as The Folksmen - people see you as characters walking out of a movie. And you appear in public, then, to play, it's a very schizophrenic thing.

Christopher Guest

Character People Walking You Play

When I was writing 'You Suck,' in 2006, I constructed the diction of the book's narrator, perky Goth girl Abby Normal, from what I read on Goth blog sites.

Christopher Moore

Girl Writing Book You Normal Suck

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.

Anthony Zinni

War Corruption Lying True Lead Up

I wanted to be in 'The Emerald Forest.' I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman!

Powers Boothe

Work Forest Six Wanted Before About

In antiquity, agriculture and industry depended completely on human labor; but now, with the development of natural forces that human labor cannot match, agriculture and industry have fallen completely into the hands of the capitalists. The greater the amount of capital, the more abundant the resources that can be utilized.

Sun Yat-sen

Hands Agriculture Labor Development