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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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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She hath wasted with fire thine high places,She hath hidden and marred and made sadThe fair limbs of the Loves, the fair facesOf gods that were goodly and glad.She slays, and her hands are not bloody;She moves as a moon in the wane,White-robed, and thy raiment is ruddy,Our Lady of Pain.
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There's just so much craziness out there in the world; it's like I couldn't fit them all in my books.
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If you look back at President Bush, nobody agreed with his policies, but you understood that he was doing things that he believed was right.
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I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.
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Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.
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Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so - fiction has perhaps been more about the differences between the unconstrained world of the imagination and the realities you run into, day-to-day, when you're riding your donkey.
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Young people think that nothing bad will ever happen to them.
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Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.
