James Bovard Quotes

I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it.

James Bovard

Recitation: by Male by Female

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  • Birth: 1956

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I play acoustic when I need to play acoustic, and I say I'm probably a better acoustic player than I am electric.

Joe Bonamassa

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I did research when I was pregnant with my first daughter and was horrified by the chemicals in products, even those meant for babies. I would have to go to 50 different places just to get my house and my kid clean.

Jessica Alba

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When you're reinterpreting the same material eight shows a week, it's impossible to lock in the 'ideal' performance. Things that felt great in previews can feel forced three months in; jokes that got big laughs in the rehearsal room may suddenly fall flat in front of a paying audience.

Andrew Keenan-Bolger

GreatPerformanceImpossibleYou

If you want to be a poet, you can just write it on a napkin, and it's the length of the napkin, I guess. But usually you decide you'll rhyme it, or you'll have a formula. In radio, that's something called, 'Close your eyes and listen.'

Robert Krulwich

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When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.

John Sergeant Wise

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Seattle was a rabid film town in the '70s and '80s because it rained so much.

John Requa

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Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.

Tom Wolfe

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No one has to agree with everything that someone else says. But in state-to-state relations, we have to understand that we can help each other much more doing it that way. We have to be more generous.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

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European officials thought that austerity was part of what they called their 'convergence policies,' of trying to bring countries together. Instead, it actually made things worse. There's more inequality within countries and more disparity across countries.

Joseph Stiglitz

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I didn't get attached to Botox. It is costly, and you have to remember to keep doing it.

Cherie Lunghi

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When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole afternoon. They were like their own whole world.

Chris Ware

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Being on stage and on a motorcycle are two of the only places I feel comfortable and free. Those are my happy places.

Brantley Gilbert

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