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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
-
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.'
-
My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
-
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.
-
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.
-
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
-
No one pays me to be nice.
-
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.
-
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.
-
There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
-
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.
-
I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
-
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.'
-
I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.
-
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.
-
There is no suspense in inevitability.
-
A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
-
Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.
-
But on the other hand, I talked to a woman who was a working woman, and it was actually great for her, because she had her husband one week of the month and the other three weeks, while he was with his other wives, she got to pursue what she wanted to do.
-
I think I'll always live in Fort Worth. It's great that I can now go anywhere I want to play music, but I love coming back here. I can roll down the streets and just reminisce.
-
The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.
-
Our political life favors the extremes of speech; the man who is gifted in the arts of abuse is bound to be a notable, if not always a great figure.
-
It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.
