James Bovard Quotes
It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing.
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First, I would find an object which I would think is suitable for my characters and stories, then write about it, and in the end, I ended up with a house full of thousands of objects.
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Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
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I want to avoid injuries by running only road.
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I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
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Fat Joe is signed to Fat Joe. I have a distribution deal for my label. I'm independent. I'm very happy with that.
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As things go digital, the notion of new editions will go away. A publisher can add video and assessment content at scale, make the change in 30 seconds and it's just a software update.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.
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It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions.
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I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.
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It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.
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I'm definitely neurotic. I don't cross streets and stuff.
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When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.
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Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.
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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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The teenage female has less demand to perform and more resources to attract love. Her body and mind are more genetic gifts.
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No one is banging my door down to be a superhero. I don't know how good I would be. I have low bone density, so I don't know if anyone really wants to put me in a cape and chuck me out a window. But a lot of my friends, who are great actors and who come from film, are doing TV because that's where the opportunities are. For us, it does feel like it's similar to making the movies that we used to make.
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I love traveling, I love waking up in a new city every day.
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This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump.
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Opium ain’t got nothing on the promise of tomorrow turning up better than today. Snow
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I would like more challenging roles. I definitely would like to something that's more challenging.
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It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing.
