John Ross Bowie Quotes
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.
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The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington?
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I've been sent lots of lovely gifts - everything from candy and peanut butter to hand-made quilts, pictures, and clothing. I was once sent a crate of avocados. Fortunately, I love them.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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When I was growing up, I was told you could be anything you want to be, but I didn't really believe that because you couldn't be president. Like, I knew that; we never had a black president.
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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
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Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.
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I had no clue about taxes at all. I didn't know they hit your paycheck. There's something that you've always got to put money away for. I didn't know you've got to put money away for it, even though it's coming out your own money. It's like, 'What the heck?'
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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
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Spangling the wave with lights as vainAs pleasures in the vale of pain,That dazzle as they fade.
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The most important thing is readers. I've got a huge Twitter following, but I don't really think it sells books; I don't think a huge Facebook following sells books - although these things aren't bad, of course.
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It's time that Americans dealt seriously with guns, getting in place strong and appropriate measures - there is no excuse for anything but the strictest controls.
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My older brothers, they know how to keep my head straight and be thinking about what I need to do on the court. Now I have that in me, that mentality, that I want to get better and better every game. Thanks to them, they showed me the way.
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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
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We can only imagine the history of the free world today if, at the end of the Civil War, there had been two countries: the United States and the Confederate States of America.
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One time I happened to use the word 'denigrate' onstage, and it didn't get any reaction. So as I continued my act, the left side of my brain was fast-forwarding to see if I had any other big words coming up.
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I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.
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The only thing you have to know are your words.
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Your kids have these big emotions they can't put into words.
