James Bovard Quotes

There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency.

James Bovard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
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  • Birth: 1956

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When I was still in the Yardbirds, our producer, Mickie Most, would always try to get us to record all these horrible songs. During one session, we recorded 'Ten Little Indians,' an extremely silly song that featured a truly awful brass arrangement.

Jimmy Page

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I don't feel like I've changed as much as radio formats have changed.

Jewel

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Growing up, it was uncool to admit that your family had any money. And then, instantly, money was cool. In Reagan's parlance, it was about freedom of the individual, which was freedom to be greedy... individual versus society. There was a weird seduction in that, which I still feel.

John Cameron Mitchell

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I love what I do and the music I make and the bands I've done, especially Fall Out Boy. I also love what I love, and I don't care if other people like it.

Joe Trohman

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Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?

Matt Lauer

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Success can't be forced.

Loretta Young

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Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.

Lisa Ling

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To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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If someone said, 'Jon, we need $250 million a year from now and we can make a dramatic breakthrough for ovarian cancer,' I'd have $250 million in two months. You just work day and night if the cause in your heart is justified.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

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I think I need to play somebody who expresses themselves and is able to communicate on a more open level, something really different.

Claire Foy

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I've done 44 portraits of Obama because he's the 44th president.

Peter Max

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I've never once corrected someone who got my name wrong.

Sharon Bolton

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