James Bovard Quotes
People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.
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Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
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Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
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I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn't have had I been living here. And that probably made me more political as well.
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When I first moved here, I almost felt like I was obligated to hate L.A. as a New Yorker. I moved way too fast for this city. I walked everywhere, and I was lonely, too. It was a really hard time not knowing anybody, and you don't run into people the way you do in New York. You can go a week without seeing anyone.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.
