James Bovard Quotes

There are a lot of benefits representative of government and it is far better than any type of dictatorial system and it is far better than a one-man rule situation.

James Bovard

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• If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Good
  • Movie
  • You

• Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.

  

  Gary North
  • People
  • Man
  • Communism

• I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Myself
  • Player
  • Imagination

• Sometimes when you play a character, you can feel it in your body. And I felt like I had characteristics of my dog: the way Webster moves, the way he holds his head. I kind of adapted it into this part unconsciously.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Character
  • Body
  • Dog

• Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Money
  • Health
  • Learning

• Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • War
  • Worry
  • Shooting

• The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Happiness
  • Prison
  • Utopia

• I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Earth
  • Me
  • Desire

• I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • World
  • Women
  • Peace

• By having a blog, you can make yourself very accessible to your target audience. You can leave comments open on your blog so you can learn exactly what your audience likes about what you're doing with your business and about what they think you should change.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Change
  • Yourself

• When I'm directing films, I mostly try to create an environment on set that mimics what's in my mind as to the tone and feel of things. I try to create a place where you feel that anything's possible.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Mind
  • Environment
  • Try

• In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was trying to pay up, the restaurant owner would say, 'Your bill was paid.' And there would be a note saying, 'Mr. Ma, I'm your customer on the Alibaba platform. I made a lot of money, and I know you don't, so I paid the bill.'

  

  Jack Ma
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Money

• The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Work
  • Science

• I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism' that deprived the individual of his or her natural rights.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Family
  • Socialism

• To govern the state by law is to praise the right and blame the wrong.

  

  Han Fei
  • Law

• Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

  

  Jacques Chirac

• When people have been traumatized, they are stuck in paralysis-the immobility reaction or abrupt explosions of rage.

  

  Peter A. Levine
  • Stuck
  • Rage
  • Reactions

• Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.

  

  Jann Wenner
  • Long
  • Quality
  • Design

• Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Mind
  • Movie
  • Plays

• It's always fun to visit multiple locations on one trip, but I think it also really depends on the ages of those on holiday. As a child, I loved spending time in one vacation spot, getting attached to the location, becoming comfortable, and feeling as though I were at home. This is something I would like for my children to experience.

  

  Margherita Missoni
  • Time
  • Children
  • Home

• I wasn't sure I found that particularly reassuring, but in the event of an attack I wasn't going to be as much use as Thomas 'Oh sorry, was that your Tiger Tank?' Nightingale.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Sorry
  • Attack
  • Reassuring

• There are a lot of benefits representative of government and it is far better than any type of dictatorial system and it is far better than a one-man rule situation.

  

  James Bovard