Alexander Cockburn Quotes
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.
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Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
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The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.
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I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state.
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I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.
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But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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The level of dynamism is a matter of how fertile the country is in coming up with innovative ideas having prospects of profitability, how adept it is at identifying and nourishing the ideas with the best prospects, and how prepared it is in evaluating and trying out the new products and methods that are launched onto the market.
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Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.
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Whenever we do stuff with Die Antwoord, it's kind of like... I made a lot of music before this group that I'm kind of bored of and forgot about, and everything with Die Antwoord I really love. It's the first time I've made music where, even the first songs we made, I really adore all those songs, and I'm proud of them.
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Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.
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What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.
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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
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When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.
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Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.
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The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
