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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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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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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Each time I spoke, I gained a little courage. It took a long while-but today I have more happiness than I ever dreamed possible. In rearing my own children, I have always taught them the lesson I had to learn from such bitter experience: No matter what happens, always be yourself!
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice.
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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.
