Charles Bukowski Quotes

I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions.

Charles Bukowski

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I'm not one of those celebrities that will just put my name on something and expect to get a check.

Joey Kramer

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While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

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He's been so successful, arguably the best quarterback ever to play the game. If you were trying to follow his footsteps, it would be incredibly difficult. I'd go crazy if I woke up every day and tried to compare myself to Peyton Manning.

Andrew Luck

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The Luxembourg financial centre is based on several pillars, we are characterised by the breadth of our product range, we are an active participant in the international credit business.

Jean-Claude Juncker

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It is my job to step into different characters.

Amy Jackson

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When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.

Amy Chua

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I'm a good storyteller.

Sophie Marceau

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I like producing, but I don't love it. I love acting. I got into producing because I had a bad time in 1989 when no work was coming in.

Trudie Styler

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More than anybody else I'd like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.

Tony Bennett

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One of the things about the con artist lifestyle is that all the romance is sort of sloppy and fast and loose.

Matt Bomer

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I did a theater program the summer of my junior year, and that's when I really fell in love with the craft of acting. It became more about the craft and less about being a working actor.

Lucas Hedges

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During the time that my recording career seemed to be in a slump a music called disco came on the scene and literally took over radio stations as well as having radio stations created to play it which sort of negated my music as well as that of some of my peers.

Dionne Warwick

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