Eric Alterman Quotes
Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
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Twitter should ban my mother.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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Every guy should own one good pair of jeans.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.
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The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
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The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.
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My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.
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The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.
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We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they still capture our imagination because they were actually so similar to us. They were very civilized. They had a very similar political system.
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Members of Congress are less beasts of accumulating burden than computational machines designed to win re-election. Their sense of their own political interests is acute.
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I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.
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Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.
