Erskine Bowles Quotes
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I write in a small office at home.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.
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The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - they couldn't believe it - after all that time. You know, it wasn't a compilation, it was new songs.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.
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I pick the wrong kinds of guys, but they're so hot.
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I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.
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I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.
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The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.
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I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.
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One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about your actions and their consequences and why you're there. And I think now, it turns more into - the minute you go there, it's just survival.
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In the 1970s, New York City avoided bankruptcy because wise political leaders like Gov. Hugh L. Carey believed both in strong labor unions and robust banks and companies.
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There's only one direction you can coast-downhill.
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I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils.
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Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.
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The criticism is what I expect, honestly, because I'm criticizing myself every day when I come in here and watch that film. I'm trying to get better.
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I think people respond to truth. 'Straight Outta Compton' made $60 million over the weekend, right? That's not just a black audience. 'Empire' grew every single week. That's not just a black audience. Black culture is American culture, you know what I mean? They're becoming more and more one in the same.
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This race will be about the future of our state.
