Eric Alterman Quotes
Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.Eric Alterman
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
Gabriel Byrne -
Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
Taylor Hackford -
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
Queen Elizabeth II -
Is it possible that there are no coincidences?
M. Night Shyamalan -
For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
Zoe Kravitz -
Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
Brown Campbell
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
Rachel Zoe -
Let the path be open to talent.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
Dakota Fanning -
I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession.
Parminder Nagra -
I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.
Kate McKinnon -
Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.
Lalu Prasad Yadav
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I do, I kick major butt in 'Dredd.' I get to kill people. I break a guy's neck by roundhouse kicking him in the face. It was me, I did it. I learned how to roundhouse kick. I also do it with my hands cuffed behind my back so it's pretty cool I have to say. Yeah, leather body suit, blonde hair, the whole thing.
Olivia Thirlby -
Don't take things too seriously, and just chill.
Kailash Kher -
I'm pretty boring.
Abigail Breslin -
It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.
Bahman Ghobadi -
You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.
Eddie Murphy -
People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.
Magic Johnson
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I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.
Taylor Wilson -
There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America.
Peter Max -
I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.
Kenneth Branagh -
A violent scene is art, as much as a sex scene is art. For me, all the scenes were a challenge.
Adele Exarchopoulos -
Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.
Eric Alterman