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.

  

  Hailey Gates
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• I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.

  

  P. L. Travers
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• Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

  

  Yoko Ono
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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.

  

  Earl Campbell
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• One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
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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.

  

  Walter Kirn
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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.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
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• Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

  

  Kamisese Mara
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• When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

  

  Owen Hart
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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.

  

  Zachary Knighton
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• Home is where your rump rests.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
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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.

  

  Fat Joe
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• I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.

  

  Sam Kinison
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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.

  

  Karrie Webb
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• Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
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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.

  

  Baba Kalyani
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• We should all love animals.

  

  Karl Pilkington
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• Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I haven't figured out why people like what they like. I don't know. I wish I did. I could sell that to everybody, man, and be a millionaire.

  

  Jason Aldean
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• Most of the time, people are afraid of silence, and I'm not.

  

  Karamo Brown
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• Social computing is doing what agile methodology is doing to our process - it's breaking down our visibility.

  

  Parker Harris
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• Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• Yes, you who must leave everything that you cannot control, It begins with your family, and soon it comes round to your soul. Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned: When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned.

  

  Leonard Cohen
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• The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.

  

  James Bovard
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