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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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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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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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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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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This path that we are now starting will be long, and we must follow it to remind ourselves of the great principles that, in our understanding, should always inspire us.
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A lot of them want to come and play for Manchester United. They want to play because Alex has a record of giving youth a chance and we have the history and heritage of Manchester United.
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Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.
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You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.
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I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little-not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell.
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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.
