Charles Bowden (Charles Clyde Bowden) Quotes
Fear of being killed and fear of killing attracts people to killers and murders. Anyone who has covered homicides for a daily paper soon learns this reality from the questions people ask of a story over coffee.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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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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I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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If we really want to cherish religious freedom, people who want to believe that same-sex marriage should take place, they have a right to believe that, and people who want to believe it's inappropriate, we should not demonize those people - if we really believe in religious liberty.
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If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
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Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.
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Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
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We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.
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When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life.
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Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit.
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It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage in my life.
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'Little Night' has layers of meaning. There's something enchanted about night. All those heavenly bodies, shooting stars, the crescent moon, celestial phenomenon. Owls fly at night, and first kisses happen. Night is romantic. Alternately, darkness hides the worst of human behavior.
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All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show.
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Since the early Nineties it's been very fashionable to say, 'It's all about the music.'
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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If ever there was a time for true bipartisanship, it is today.
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On religion I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, benzedrine or a bottle of Jack Daniel's.
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I met my darling wife Wilnelia in 1980 when we were on the judging panel for the Miss World contest at the Royal Albert Hall. With two ex-wives and five daughters, I thought I wouldn't be involved with anyone for a long time - if ever. Winnie was so gorgeous, my jaw dropped - and it's a big jaw to drop.
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By him just being alive is inspiration enough.
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Fear of being killed and fear of killing attracts people to killers and murders. Anyone who has covered homicides for a daily paper soon learns this reality from the questions people ask of a story over coffee.
