Alexander Cockburn Quotes
No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
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Asking people for money is really different than asking people for their support.
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The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the interest of my country and my nation? And I'm going to do it fully.
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I teach some of the guys stuff that I've learned.
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I'm not a techie, but I don't know how I lived without an iPad! Mine comes with me everywhere. As greatest inventions go, it's up there with electricity and cars.
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I don't think I'm that good a singer. I can't think of a song that I've written that I don't like the way somebody else sings it better.
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No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.
