James Bovard Quotes
The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.
Quotes to Explore
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?
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A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
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Most Israelis have a sense, 'We just don't want to live in the Middle East anymore. We don't want it to be the Middle East. Were going to just build a wall or operate unilaterally' - not try to even use force as used to be the case to convince Arabs to accept Israel by convincing them that Israel is here to stay and then negotiating.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
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When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes.
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That's the great thing about Apple: it's very focused on the things that we know how to do very well and not try to extend ourselves to areas that we know very little about or don't have a lot of expertise in.
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If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.
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The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.
