Coy Bowles Quotes

It's kind of a Catch-22. The more successful you get, the less normal you get.

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• I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Social
  • Corruption
  • Activism

• Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.

  

  Ted Lange
  • You
  • Film
  • Difference

• I've found that musical theater is my passion.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Passion
  • Found
  • Theater

• Film is anti-language.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Film

• The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Long
  • America
  • Feeling

• I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Life
  • Money
  • Simple

• I tell inmates all the time, 'Don't complain about your grind. Do your time.'

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Time
  • Grind
  • Complain

• I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • World
  • Think
  • Childhood

• Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Day
  • Solve
  • One Day

• The past is but the past of a beginning.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Past
  • Beginning

• What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Important
  • Book
  • Changes

• I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.

  

  Patrick Troughton
  • Mind
  • Space
  • Travel

• I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind,' but eventually, I found my way and realized that wasn't me.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Beginning
  • Thought
  • Wind

• Having your stuff online - some people think of it as gimmicky, but in a way, it's one of the most pure forms of having your work judged.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• If you are lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call them. Don't text; don't e-mail. Call them on the phone.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Parent
  • Lucky
  • Alive

• I get tweets every single day going, like, 'I'm so glad you weren't on 'The X Factor.'

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • You
  • Single
  • Day

• More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Great
  • Control
  • Pride

• Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • True
  • Man
  • Religious

• We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Law
  • Responsibility
  • Follow

• The real power of mass data collection lies in the hand-tailored algorithms capable of sifting, sorting, and identifying patterns within the data itself. When enough information is collected over time, governments and corporations can use or abuse those patterns to predict future human behavior.

  

  Chelsea Manning
  • Time
  • Real
  • Power

• Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of course, and I don't quibble with them in the slightest. But if we really want to start fathoming someone, we need to get them speaking in sentences we can't finish.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Virtues
  • Ritual
  • Entropy

• I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • War
  • Peace
  • Wisdom

• A strange persuasion came upon me that, save for the grossness of the line, the grotesqueness of the forms, I had here before me the whole balance of human life in miniature, the whole interplay of instinct, reason, and fate in its simplest form.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Life
  • Balance
  • Fate

• It's kind of a Catch-22. The more successful you get, the less normal you get.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band