Alexander Cockburn Quotes
The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
Quotes to Explore
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.
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The pessimist writes over the gates of life what the poet has inscribed on the portals of hell-'Abandon hope, ye who enter here.'
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When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.
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You can't resolve a dilemma with all the very same mind that made it.
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If I had the medical clearance to fight, I would want to fight the best. The best would be Mayweather.
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I want to take it really far in Spanish; even non-Spanish speakers listen to my music across the world. Even though they don't know what I'm saying, they really feel it. We want to take it to another level and keep building our name. We want to take it really far just in Spanish.
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The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
