Eric Alterman Quotes
Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
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If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
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Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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I've watched Urkel since I was a little kid.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.
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I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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I didn't argue that the war in Vietnam was immoral; it was merely stupid and a horrendous waste of time, money, and lives based on a flawed premise.
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The best way to propel the economy may be to encourage different parts of the country to go their own way.
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I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.
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Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.
