Eric Alterman Quotes
Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.
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I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.
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That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
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I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
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All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.
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For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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In whatever number of years I have on Earth, I think that promoting the values of free expression, the openness of the Internet, that's the best use of my time.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.
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As a painting teacher I'm not flirting, playing around. I'm serious about it.. .If you don't want to be serious about playing at art, do something of no account. Go into banking. Buy collar buttons at five cents a dozen and sell them for five cents a piece.
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Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence.
