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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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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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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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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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
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I am so happy that every generation still tunes into most of the classic and cult films I was lucky to be a part of.
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There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family.
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To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.
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Lonesome Rhodes had wild mood swings. He'd be very happy, he'd be very said, he'd be very angry, very depressed, and I had to pull all of these emotions out of myself. And it wasn't easy.
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A day doesn't go by when I don't get a compliment on L.A. Confidential, for example.
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Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
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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.
