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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You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.
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Heaven's all-subduing will,With good the progeny of ill,Attempreth every state below.
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Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.
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The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being.
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If you are not learning, you are not living.
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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.
