Coy Bowles Quotes
If they keep playing us on country radio and we get to keep doing cool stuff like playing with Willie Nelson, that's great.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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Bulking up for the Twilight films was one of the hardest things I've done... I had to give myself a lot of pep talks, as there was just so much gym time.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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It's going to take a certain man for me to ever get involved with, because he'll have to realize I don't have two children, I have three. Tommy is always going to always be a part of my life.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent. Blaming the victim is tempting; it offers an out.
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The worst thing people ever say is that 'I can't afford to have kids!' It's selfish, and what infuriates me is when people say they can't do stuff they like go on holidays and buy cars when they have kids. You can - you find the money, you've just got to work harder for it.
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I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.
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I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.
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If they keep playing us on country radio and we get to keep doing cool stuff like playing with Willie Nelson, that's great.
