James Bovard Quotes
It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.
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I don't really like to work with actors that work a lot and are very well established already. In a way, I like to nurture talent and have it burst on the scene.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.
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Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
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There is no suspense in inevitability.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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It was easy to be the bad guy throughout.
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One of the great things about music is how it can take you places.
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What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.
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I'm not superstitious.
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It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that.
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It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.
