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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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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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
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It's much more difficult running a business than buying one.
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My brother works for a forestry commission. He writes only in green ink to persuade his bossess to make it a standard ecological colour for all forestry business. I asked him what colour ink he would use if he gave up eating whale meat and worked for a whaling company. He said whales were colour blind.
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The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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It's rare that a character film is easy to fund.
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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.
