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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
-
I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
-
There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
-
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.
-
Twitter should ban my mother.
-
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
-
I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
-
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.
-
Every guy should own one good pair of jeans.
-
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.
-
Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
-
Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
-
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.
-
The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
-
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.
-
The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.
-
My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.
-
I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
-
The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
-
The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.
-
Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.
