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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Just because something's been good in the past doesn't mean it will continue to be good.
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I've seen Bruno Mars before, he's amazing.
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Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.
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If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're endlessly fascinated by the family.
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Long before the arrival of reality TV - before speed cameras, before recording angels on buses and lampposts - I felt I was living in a country that already knew how to watch itself. It was journalism that held the responsibility for seeing who we were and noticing what we did.
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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.
