Josh Bowman (Joshua Tobias Bowman) Quotes
Everyone wants to escape, everyone's drawn to escapism to leave their lives for an hour or two, and we're all so curious as human beings.
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'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.
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I eat whatever I want, junk food included.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.
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One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
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I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives.
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I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor.
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I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.
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I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.
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If you want a robot to maneuver aggressively, it has to be small. As you scale things down, the 'moment of inertia' - the resistance to angular motion - drops dramatically.
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The living werewolves have genuine needs and desires, which, though they may oppose ours, are valid. Even if they want to eat humans, you can't really call them evil, any more than mice can call cats evil, or chickens can call humans evil. It's all just a matter of where you're standing.
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I just want to continue the way I am going.
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I believe that you will not get what you want unless you ask for it.
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Brad Pitt is amazingly talented and equally good-looking, too.
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Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.
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I'm not thinking about the next record really yet. I kind of want to do a bunch of stuff with Jonathan Zawada, the guy who did the album art. I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record.
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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Everyone wants to escape, everyone's drawn to escapism to leave their lives for an hour or two, and we're all so curious as human beings.
