Eric Alterman Quotes
The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue.
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Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it's already gone, you've mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.
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My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.
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I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.
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It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
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I don't think you should limit what you read.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
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When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.
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At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in the Cotswolds exploring Shakespeare's countryside. It's my kind of English landscape, with its tiny villages and one-room thatched pubs.
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I've got this great home life I want to keep living, and I don't want to neglect it.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue.
