Eric Alterman Quotes
For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.Eric Alterman
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I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
Randall Park -
I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
Naomie Harris -
It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
Beau Willimon -
God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who've spent more time in la-la land than in the 'real world.'
Parker Palmer -
What's become a big theme in my music is my dad as a narrative character. I never had the opportunity to understand our relationship in a more adult capacity. The unknown is great material for any creative outlet.
K. Flay
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I just respect Kanye as an artist.
Bebe Rexha -
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
Babe Ruth -
Lipgloss is my calling!
Vanessa Hudgens -
Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.
Octavio Paz -
I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.
Lana Del Rey
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.
Harold Ramis -
War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
Carl von Clausewitz -
I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
I've never been on a television show as a regular before.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Jackie Chan is a myth.
Jackie Chan
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I have a daughter who has taught me a lot along the way.
Alex Guarnaschelli -
To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.
Joan Didion -
In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for 'Pretty Woman.'
Julia Roberts -
Physical development fosters learning.
Betsy Hodges -
I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?
Lady Gaga -
For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.
Eric Alterman