James Bovard Quotes
The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.
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I think we live in a culture that relentlessly pursues comfort. Ease is related to disease. We shouldn't always be fleeing hardship. Hardship also brings people together. We should welcome it.
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I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses, or musicians. And you know, I've been a big fan of different musicians or actors.
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We keep calling for accountability and reinvestment and a push for all of us to imagine a world where black people are not policed but instead supported and loved and cared for. Where our families can feel safe and inspired and protected.
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It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.
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The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.
