Charles Bowen Quotes
I think as an educational institution, at some point during a student's journey, it becomes important to understand the origins of our country, ... To provide that opportunity is to encourage all students, staff and faculty to take advantage of this experience. It is my hope that after this week, many of us will have both a greater understanding and appreciation of what the Constitution means to us.
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.
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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
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The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
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So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.
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It's a purging of sorts. Like, when you're all done doing your laundry and it's fresh and bright, but washing the clothes, you wouldn't want to get in while it's spinning around.
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I was always the tallest girl in my class, and it made me have really bad posture because I wanted to seem shorter than I really was. It really reflected how I felt about myself. I spent most of my youth in school feeling really insecure about the way I looked because I was different.
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I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.
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I think as an educational institution, at some point during a student's journey, it becomes important to understand the origins of our country, ... To provide that opportunity is to encourage all students, staff and faculty to take advantage of this experience. It is my hope that after this week, many of us will have both a greater understanding and appreciation of what the Constitution means to us.
