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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How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.
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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 think America has a brilliant future.
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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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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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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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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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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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We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.
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Some people are cool, some are cold. Many are down to earth, while a select few are divas.
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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous. We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world; the prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States; we do a trillion dollars in trade among the three countries; more than 18,000 American companies are involved in foreign direct investment in Mexico and Canada; an increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
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The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.
