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James Bovard Quotes

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.

Recitation: by Male by Female

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Birth: 1956

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Government Election Noble Snapshot

True partisans draft legislation that gives themselves everything and their enemies nothing. They love bills that repulse and even disgust the other side. Today's politics have become an all-or-nothing, black-or-white, zero-sum game - it's not a contact sport but a blood sport.

Love Today Politics Game Blood True

The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.

Heart Light Body Human Cheerful

In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy.

Jemaine Clement

Life Sick Comedy Acting Shy Real

You can't judge a family's health by the form it's in at a given moment.

Stephanie Coontz

Family Health Moment Judge You Form

I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'

Life Love Music You Professional

I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybody comes.

Family Me Values Important Always

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Government Moving Short View Tax Up

I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency.

Joyce Carol Oates

Morning Style Beginning Consistency

Yes, I am the first Latino poet laureate in the United States. But I'm also here for everyone and from everyone. My voice is made by everyone's voices.

Juan Felipe Herrera

I Am Voice First Latino Yes Poet

In baseball, it doesn't matter if you're tall, skinny, fat, whatever. If you really have talent and you really love to play, I feel like you can make it.

Love Talent Baseball Feel Fat You

I've never been a feminist.

Never Been Feminist

If you had no enemies, you had no fun.

Fun You Enemies Had No Fun

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