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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Back in 2005, the Anthony Nolan Trust could have asked me just to speak out about the lack of ethnic minority donors on the bone marrow register, but that would have meant nothing if I wasn't prepared to join up myself.
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I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.
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There is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are.
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I love coming back home and seeing old friends and family. I would say it keeps me grounded.
