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.Eric Alterman
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
Ralph Lauren -
I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
Ilana Glazer -
There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
Jack Nicholson -
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.
Pamela Meyer -
Twitter should ban my mother.
Frances Bean Cobain -
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
H. G. Wells
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
Hailey Bieber -
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.
Tasha Smith -
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.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
Captain Beefheart -
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.
Rachel Kushner -
Every guy should own one good pair of jeans.
Hannibal Buress
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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.
Beck -
Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
Dale Murphy -
Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
Abbi Glines -
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.
Abbe Pierre -
The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
W. H. Murray -
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.
Galen Rowell
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Well, fans always root for the underdog.
Maria Sharapova -
I think one of the things that was a huge surprise to everyone with 'Silence of the Lambs' was that that was an Oscar-winning horror movie. It struck such a nerve with audiences that it was a very particular, special experience.
Bryan Fuller -
Acting had become something I did and did well - but didn't particularly enjoy.
Dennis Christopher -
We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.
Marina Abramovic -
A doctor, a judge, or a piece of paper shouldn't have the power to tell someone who he or she is. We should all have the absolute and inalienable right to define ourselves, in our own terms and in our own languages, and to be able to express our identity and perspectives without fear of consequences and retribution.
Chelsea Manning -
Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.
Eric Alterman