James Bobin Quotes
I think we live in an entertainment world where performers like to flaunt how great they are. The Conchords don't do that. Even when they stumble onstage, people like it.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have figured out the 'Call it what it ain't' PR ploy by now, but... um... no.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.
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Death always seems to be around me.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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Growing up in the digital age of filmmaking, I'm as guilty as anyone of overshooting.
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All the money in the world is spent on feeling good.
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There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.
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The media people need to have real tech people, and the tech people need media people. Otherwise, you have the 'Star Wars' bar on Tatooine with everyone fighting.
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I think we live in an entertainment world where performers like to flaunt how great they are. The Conchords don't do that. Even when they stumble onstage, people like it.
