John Ross Bowie Quotes
I have friends who have children with various disabilities, and I was able to talk to them about just sort of the struggle and the extra effort that has to be put into very commonplace things.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.
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My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.
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It's so hard not to smile.
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As athletes, most of the time we deal with fans cussing at us, saying how much we suck.
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I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.
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Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.
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I have laid sorrow to sleep;Love sleeps.She who oft made me weepNow weeps.
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I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning.
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There've been a few mother-daughter movies that are somewhat realistic. But the mother-son movies are more comical than realistic: 'Throw Momma from the Train,' 'Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot.' You don't sit in the dark and go, 'Oh my God, that's my mother.'
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When I look at Kickstarter, I see small businesses that have been funded by their customers. I see the acceleration of this shift away from the industrial manufacturing ideology to more of a maker economy. And I also see an idea so powerful that the company name has become a verb.
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It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.
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I feel, in 2015, when we see human beings and children dying to cross the ocean, trying to find safety, something more must be done to help them because refugees are just like me and you.
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I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed to the characters lecturing their children or students. Dialogue can humanise the story and make it go down somewhat more smoothly.
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I'm never going to search for anyone's acceptance. I'm just going to be me, and people are eventually going to have to accept it.
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I have friends who have children with various disabilities, and I was able to talk to them about just sort of the struggle and the extra effort that has to be put into very commonplace things.
