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 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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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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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
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The biggest problems with Iran in the region are not due to the size of their resources, but due to the fact that they've been more effective in supporting proxies and stirring up dissension and conflict in the region than America or our allies have been in stopping those activities.
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The world is as good as you are. You've got to learn to like yourself first.
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The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
