Eric Alterman Quotes

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

Eric Alterman

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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.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • School
  • Home
  • Workout

• I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Miracle
  • Kid
  • Take

• It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Stupid
  • Said
  • Islam

• 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.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • Politics
  • Vote

• 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.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Bad
  • Playing
  • Started

• 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.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Peace
  • Joy
  • Child

• 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.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Family
  • She
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Fun
  • Day
  • Dance

• I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Political
  • Past
  • Year

• 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.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Different
  • Change
  • Fashion

• That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Good
  • Way
  • Heroic

• I'm still a small shrimp, not a dragon.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Small
  • Still
  • Dragon

• I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • American
  • Game

• 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.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Day

• I liked being CEO of Blockbuster, but my job is to put it on the bottom line for shareholders.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Job
  • Line
  • CEO

• 'Dead Aid' is about the inefficacy and the limitations of large-scale aid programs in creating economic growth and reducing poverty in Africa.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Growth
  • Poverty
  • Africa

• Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Marriage

• Sound loves to revel in a summer night.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Night
  • Summer

• In 'A Room of One's Own', Virginia Woolf satirically describes her perplexity at the bulging card catalog of the British Museum: why, she asks, are there so many books written by men about women but none by women about men? The answer to her question is that from the beginning of time men have been struggling with the threat of woman's dominance.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• We want to continue the efforts against domestic violence and spread the drug courts, and develop real effective means of providing treatment for drug abusers without having to have them arrested.

  

  Janet Reno
  • Real
  • Violence
  • Drug

• I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.

  

  Dominic Monaghan
  • Different
  • Parents
  • Travel

• If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.

  

  W. H. Auden

• Lenny Breau was a genius - inspired and really loose. I loved how he used the guitar as an extension of his inner freedom, because, obviously, on the outside there were a lot of trainwrecks going on. But when you listen to him play, you hear what kind of guy he really is

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Kind

• Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

  

  Eric Alterman