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 eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
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The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
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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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People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.
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My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.
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Here's what my CV usually does not say: I was trained as a teacher. My first job lasted less than 60 days. I was an assistant professor at a good college at Delhi University, but I found it very political, very suffocating. At the age of 23, you're not very tolerant of those things.
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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.
