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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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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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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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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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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My dad had always been a big decaf coffee drinker. But my mom had always been more of a tea drinker. So I grew up around a lot of tea. And I also really love tea. But I'm not one of those people who has ever felt the need to choose between coffee and tea. I think that is a completely false dichotomy.
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God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
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I know God loves me. I tell people all the time I'm one of his favorite childs. I had to believe in something bigger than me - bigger than man. I had to believe that God would send somebody across my path to keep my dreams alive.
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I would maintain that the buddhist world-view, with its recognition of the crucial role of the mind and the inconceivably vast dimensions of reality is much richer and more adequate to philosophical reflection than the flattened world-view bequeathed to us through a presumptuous misapplication of the scientific method beyond its legitimate domain.
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For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up.
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I had decided to be a magician well before I decided to be a writer. I was the little boy who would get up on-stage and do magic wearing a fake mustache, which would fall off during the performance. I'm still trying to perform those tricks. Now I do it with writing.
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I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.
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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.
