Eric Alterman Quotes

Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.

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• Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.

  

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• Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.

  

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• I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

  

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• Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

  

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• We all have our strengths and our failings.

  

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• I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.

  

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• The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

  

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• I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.

  

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• Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.

  

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• Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

  

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• I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.

  

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• There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
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• President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.

  

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• I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.

  

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• When you face a 'performance' that might provoke the 'I'm scared' response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It's more fun than 'Dancing with the Stars!'

  

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• Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

  

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• Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks.

  

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• The corn that I planted, the fields that I cleared, The flocks that I raised, and the cabin I reared; The wife of my bosom - Farewell to ye all! In the land of the stranger I rise or I fall.

  

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• I don't have any room in my heart for that character [Kevin McCallister ]. I like the actor [Macaulay Culkin], but the character, no.

  

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  • Heart
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• You can write the best column in the world on Monday, and it does you absolutely no good on Tuesday. There is no way to win. You just write until you are tired, they fire you, or you die.

  

  Lewis Grizzard
  • World
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• I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.

  

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• Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.

  

  Eric Alterman
  • World
  • Science
  • Earth