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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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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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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Not being allowed to use the Internet is kind of like not being allowed to use a telephone.
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I don't want my wrinkles taken away - I don't want to look like everyone else.
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My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'
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When Jeff Sachs says every poor person should receive a free bed net, I agree - but in reality, many end up not receiving one. And I don't live in a world of shoulds.
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Why aren't we looking at the causes of breast cancer? Why aren't we spending our energy on looking at what we're doing to the earth? On the pollutants we're putting into the earth? And the pesticides we're putting into the earth? What we're releasing into the air? Instead, we just cut off more organs! That's where metaphor comes into it - not even metaphor as much as reality.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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As parents in private life teach wisdom to their children, so do poets in public life to their cities.
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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.
