Alexander Cockburn Quotes
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
Alexander Cockburn
Quotes to Explore
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
Aaron Stanford
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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.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.
Tamara Mellon
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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.
Walter Kirn
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
Dan Quayle
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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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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.
Edmund Phelps
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Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.
Gavin Newsom
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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.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.
Vijay Mallya
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London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
Oscar Wilde
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Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.
Carl Hubbell
