Eric Alterman Quotes
Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
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Jay Townsend has offered, and I have accepted, his resignation from his position with my campaign. Now let's return to talking about issues that really matter to families: job creation, spending restraint and economic development.
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
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Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.
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When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut... that pain you feel when you know it's time to connect with your parents or your God or your child or your past or your future... and you don't do it.
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Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years made her ever full of pity for those in need.
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There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we're taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000 people, so the contestants are nervous.
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I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.
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I've always found it embarrassing to receive awards.
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You can't jump from little things to big things. It just takes time and patience.
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...'progress', in poetry at least, comes not so much from digesting the last age as from rejecting it altogether (or, rather, from eating a little and leaving a lot), and...the world’s dialectic is a sort of neo-Hegelian one in which one progresses not by resolving contradictions but by ignoring them.
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You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.
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This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.
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I was taught in Bible college, religion and politics don't mix.
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I feel like if you've done something wrong, then you should keep on apologizing to that person.
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It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.
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Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.
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All my family were brilliant cooks when I was growing up, but I ended up just cleaning up, so I've always lacked confidence in the kitchen.
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The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.
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Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.
