Charles Bowden (Charles Clyde Bowden) Quotes

I am always an optimist. The pessimists are the liars who refuse to admit what is happening. And I'll give you three things we could do this instant to help Mexico: legalize drugs, renegotiate NAFTA so that it pays a living wage, protects unions and protects the environment and stop Plan Merida which gives $500 million a year to the Mexican army, the largest single criminal organization in Mexico.

Charles Bowden

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• Protect
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• I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Live
  • True
  • Think

• I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Kind

• Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment. That is why it is so important that we work together to build the capacity of mayors and all those concerned in planning and running sustainable cities.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Important
  • Why

• Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Life
  • Home
  • Environment

• I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Live
  • Interesting
  • Crazy

• The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Kind
  • Environment
  • Behavior

• I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • People
  • World
  • Strong

• I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • Army
  • Chicago
  • Special

• By bringing about a rational drug policy, we'd be freeing up a lot of resources for real crime. Drug disputes would get played out with courts rather than with guns. So it would make this country a much better place overnight.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Up
  • Country
  • Real

• Sexual Harassment Legislation often creates a hostile environment, an environment of female-as-child.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Environment

• The most important thing is to actually think about what you do. To become aware and actually think about the effect of what you do on the environment and on society. That's key, and that underlies everything else.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • Important
  • Society
  • Environment

• Coloradans of all walks of life value the environment.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Life
  • Value
  • Environment

• San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of money there now and a lot of dot com's so it's a little different than it used to be.

  

  Les Claypool
  • Different
  • Money
  • Interesting

• The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Real
  • Success
  • Quality

• People don't change very much, and the things life ends up being about don't change from generation to generation. Life is about love. And people's stories don't really change. Your environment changes dramatically, technology changes, but people don't change, in the way our minds work.

  

  Kelly Macdonald
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• A chaplain's assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • American
  • Fun
  • Army

• The objects you decide to keep, the ones that gave you the spark of joy? Treasure them from now on. When you put things away, you can actually audibly say, 'Hey, thank you for the good work today...' By doing so, it becomes easier for you to put the objects away and treasure them, which prolongs the spark of joy environment.

  

  Marie Kondo
  • Good
  • Work
  • Today

• At the end of the day, my hope is that when the new Medicare- Prescription Drug Law gets up and fully running a lot more seniors will pay a whole lot less than they do today for their much-needed medications.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Today

• From a productivity standpoint, you're supposed to reduce headcount on par with declining revenue. If you believe the environment isn't going to improve, you should take a bigger cut to get in front of the problems.

  

  Mark V. Hurd
  • Believe
  • Environment
  • Productivity

• It is one thing to hear about the forest and the river, but an entirely other experience to go there, to see the environment, and to appreciate the natural riches there first-hand.

  

  Chris Kilham
  • Experience
  • Hand
  • Environment

• I grew up in a very bohemian environment in southern Sweden, so I was always, always, always in black jeans.

  

  Johan Lindeberg
  • Up
  • Black
  • Environment

• There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Crowd
  • Lot
  • Every

• It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a Somali problem. We have poverty and deprivation in our own country. Try standing unarmed on a street corner in Compton handing out twenty-dollar bills and see how long you last.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Long
  • Country

• I am always an optimist. The pessimists are the liars who refuse to admit what is happening. And I'll give you three things we could do this instant to help Mexico: legalize drugs, renegotiate NAFTA so that it pays a living wage, protects unions and protects the environment and stop Plan Merida which gives $500 million a year to the Mexican army, the largest single criminal organization in Mexico.

  

  Charles Bowden
  • Environment
  • Army
  • Drug