James Bovard Quotes

Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy.

James Bovard

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• It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

  

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• I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

  

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• I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.

  

  Barbara Walters
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• Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.

  

  Kate Braverman
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• More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.

  

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• A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.

  

  Vernon Howard
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• When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

  

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• What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

  

  Walter Bagehot
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• I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
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  • Sports

• Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Singing
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• One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.

  

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• Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.

  

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• I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.

  

  Edie Falco
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  • Work

• As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Long
  • Family
  • Money

• I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Feel
  • Body

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
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• When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.

  

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• What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
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  • Plan

• The assertion that art may be good art and at the same time incomprehensible to a great number of people is extremely unjust, and its consequences are ruinous to art itself...it is the same as saying some kind of food is good but most people can't eat it.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
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• Look back at history - those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • History
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• Every 'Star Wars' film was about pushing what was possible in terms of effects, puppets, matte paintings, stop motion and, now, digitally.

  

  Dave Filoni
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• Do not allow your sorrow or your rage to become hostility toward people on the basis of their ethnicity or their religious views. That is unacceptable; it is out of bounds, and if you break the law, we will prosecute you for it.

  

  John Ashcroft
  • People
  • Law
  • Religious

• Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy.

  

  James Bovard
  • Law
  • Stop
  • Democracy