James Bovard Quotes
The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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We should all love animals.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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Foreknowledge is power.
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Without the basis in written law, and without the basis in our Constitution ratified by the people, judges can't make laws. And if we accept the notion that their dictates are law, then we have not only submitted to tyranny, we have abandoned a republican form of government.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
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As a comedian, Trump is comedy gold, and he almost makes my job too easy... the stuff that comes out of his mouth is a precious commodity.
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The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.
