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 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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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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That President Mohammad Khatami's policies have been blocked is the bitterest incident in the contemporary Iranian history. This means that the wishes of millions of people who voted for Khatami and called for freedom and justice have been ignored... Why should cultural activities and journalism be so risky in Iran?
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I have asked people repeated follow-ups for a while and asked people uncomfortable questions for a while. I just try to hold people accountable.
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If you look beyond the short term violence and instability, you do see significant activities on the part of the Iraqi people that indicate they understand the commitment necessary to govern themselves. It's not clear how they will do it, but it never is.
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It's all about impressing people.
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Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.
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The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.
