James Bovard Quotes

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

James Bovard

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• Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

  

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• People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

  

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• A lot of times people feel a little apprehensive about suggesting to actually meet in person. One of the reasons that can be hard is people think they have to propose something super novel.

  

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• Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.

  

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• It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.

  

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• When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.

  

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• I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.

  

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• The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.

  

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• The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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• My mother is a proud Brazilian. I love visiting my family in Rio; the city and its people are so vibrant and amazing.

  

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• I found that being with happy positive people annoys me.

  

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• We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
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• I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

  

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• My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.

  

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• Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.

  

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• When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.

  

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• The music is at its best when people are truly digging in.

  

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• From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.

  

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• Sometimes when you're looking at your own work, you can't really see, and it's only when you step back a little bit later that you think, 'Oh, that's completely in line with everything else I've done.'

  

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• Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

  

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• Part of the process of acting in a film that you're also directing is really trusting the people around you to capture your vision, which hopefully you have communicated well to them.

  

  Katie Aselton
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• Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

  

  James Bovard
  • People
  • Fear