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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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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A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.
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It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than blasphemy, it is dangerous. We can never be gods, after all-but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.
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The three top issues have to be restoring jobs and private sector job growth to our country, getting the entitlement mess under control, and restoring back to our country a sense of self-confidence that Americans can achieve whatever we want to achieve.
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We have only God on our side; they have 'In God We Trust' on their side.
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My comedy isn't going to solve problems; I'm not that deep.
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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.
