Coy Bowles Quotes
I love coming back home and seeing old friends and family. I would say it keeps me grounded.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'
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Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course.
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Too clever is dumb.
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Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.
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I haven't celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times.
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Are there many Tims in America? I don't know if I can think of many American Tims.
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There are cultures that can only picture their origins and not their ends. Some are obsessed by both. Two other positions are possible: only picturing one's end - our own culture; picturing neither beginning nor end - the coming culture.
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Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better.
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I love coming back home and seeing old friends and family. I would say it keeps me grounded.
