James Bovard Quotes

It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.

James Bovard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
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  • Birth: 1956

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I was a tomboy. In my clubbing days, my friend Lucy Davies-Hunt - half-Iranian, looked like Yasmin Le Bon - could wear catsuits, while I was the one in the sweatshirt, jeans, and Fila boots.

Maxine Peake

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A mutt is a dog. He is the stuff of dogginess, a creature allied to species, not breed, and untrammeled by human hand or preference.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

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Politically, of course, the U.S., despite the flaws in its systems, is still a democracy - we like to associate with democracies. And strategically, the U.S. is a counter-balance to China, a rising China that is not yet a democracy.

Tsai Ing-wen

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I have a little name. That's why people can remember it.

Mike Watt

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You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.

Jay Alan Sekulow

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Police work in major cities - and New York is no exception - has always been vulnerable to corruption. Teddy Roosevelt built his career on it.

Don Winslow

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Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9.

Dennis Ritchie

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I freelanced for the 'Boston Phoenix.'

Christie Hefner

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Genius is nothing but continued attention.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

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I totally hate when somebody takes a classic and desecrates it. I like Jimmy Page and P. Diddy, but what they did to 'Kashmir' was a debacle.

Chuck D

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People on the outside and even some people in the fashion industry think that fashion people are maybe not the smartest. It's a constant battle.

Prabal Gurung

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Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

Pope Francis

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