Eric Alterman Quotes
Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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I opened about a dozen employment centers for Arab women across Israel during my two years as minister of economy.
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A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
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Tailoring was considered to be a world that was very traditional, and basically going out of fashion. Fashion designers did not have a real link with tailoring or tradition, so I fused the two worlds together.
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I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.
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I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.
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Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.
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I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is 'Star Trek.' They are by and large very imaginative, very intelligent people, and they certainly have been more than generous to me.
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Because real love doesn’t have anything to do with perfection. Real love is what happens when everything isn’t perfect…and you love each other anyway.
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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
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I think Heaven and afterlife is for the living; it's for the people that continue on and remember that person, and if you've done something that is substantial in your life then you can leave a legacy and do something positive.
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When you write a roman a clef, there is a tendency on the part of the reader to wonder how much of this is true, how much invented.
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Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force.
