Eric Alterman Quotes
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I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.
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My father was a minister, and it was more my mother that had the responsibility of making sure the family put out an outward of appearance of living what he was preaching. She was the PR.
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Here's the thing, back in the day, a lot of guys would make fun of me, that I would sing and dance, that I was a cheerleader. But I kept my head on straight. I had goals.
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I think more and more that I get to challenge myself and kind of raise the standard for myself every season. Even the term 'fashion' is about change. It's about newness. And what that newness means is different every 10 years, every five years.
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That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.
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I'm still a small shrimp, not a dragon.
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
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I don't do anything but sleep, when I'm not working. I have no life. I'm no fun. All I want to do is sleep and get ready for the next day. It's awesome.
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I liked being CEO of Blockbuster, but my job is to put it on the bottom line for shareholders.
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'Dead Aid' is about the inefficacy and the limitations of large-scale aid programs in creating economic growth and reducing poverty in Africa.
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Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.
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Sound loves to revel in a summer night.
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I’d say I was doing a great job submitting to God by submitting to my desires. Who do you think gave me desire in the first place?
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The power that you have as a young woman, unless you have great self-esteem, is largely based on how the rest of the world reacts to you. And so it's kind of a superficial confidence that you have, you know?
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A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results.
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Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
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It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year.
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The British inclined more towards the feudal mentality, the feudal structures rather than the more radical progressive elements who would re-shape society and institute pretty egalitarian systems of governance with opportunity for even disadvantaged people and so I found that decolonisation was not just the end of political struggle in Nigeria.
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Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.
