Charles Bowden (Charles Clyde Bowden) Quotes
Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, face the problem of being temporary themselves.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.
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I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it.
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Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?
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There are a lot of great actresses out there. You learn to appreciate each one for what they offer.
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Social computing is doing what agile methodology is doing to our process - it's breaking down our visibility.
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Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.
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I don't believe you! You're a liar! … Play it fucking loud!
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The reason it takes us from November the second to December the sixth to certify is because we have a very tedious, very comprehensive process where we audit by precinct, across the state, every vote that was cast to make sure that every vote that was legally cast is counted.
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How do you stand out as a fashion ad campaign? By using people off the street; it does generate buzz.
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Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier.
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I started dressing vintage when I was a teenager because I didn't have money for designer clothes.
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Just knowing how to rap doesn't necessarily mean that you're a good songwriter.
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I'm a single mother. It's silly to turn down work.
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Most people that take jobs as police officers are taking them because they're good jobs. Many who go into these jobs are doing it because it's good work.
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Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people. Asking in broken Italian which train we are supposed to board at the Venice railway station is far from useless. Indeed, it is better to do that than to remain uncertain and silent and end up back in Budapest rather than in Milan.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are in crisis. And I think the African-American family is at one of the worst stages it's been at in a very long time in this country. Fatherlessness is rampant.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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For me, it doesn't matter how difficult something is, it doesn't matter how impressive it is, it's what sounds best that really counts.
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Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, face the problem of being temporary themselves.
