Alexander Cockburn Quotes
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I've always tried to lend my support to worth while causes, and I feel you should use your celebrity to help with worldwide causes and help them gain exposure.
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I do get approached occasionally, but not a ton. I'm unrecognizable because I'm coated in cat hair and sweat. And there's a sort of yeti quality to my presence... so I don't think that people can see the face.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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Kristen Stewart always looks good - she wears what she wants. It's the same with Alison Mosshart - she chooses clothes that she loves rather than what she thinks she should wear.
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'Love Aaj Kal' is not really a road movie, but it does involve some travel.
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Christina can sing all the notes, but Britney is just hot!
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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In order to improve healthcare, we'll have to spend more on it, increase accountability and decentralize services, enforce standards and reinstate people's faith in it.
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My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'
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I think the Bush Administration was bound and determined on regime change, and we will be paying the price of that for some time to come.
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Gena Rowlands is my all-time love. Nicole Kidman, Michelle Pfeiffer. I grew up watching their work; they are extraordinary.
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I don't know why I survived Iraq and I don't know why I made it home, but I do know that this is my second chance at life and I can do whatever I want now.
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Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.
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I never pictured myself as just a rapper; I always wanted to act and do whatever else I could do. I always felt like I could do a lot of different things.
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I like smudgy black eyes and pale lips for evening. Red lipstick looks great on other girls, but it's too much on me.
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But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the church. As if the eternal and inviolable truth of God depended upon the decision of men!
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This is like a game we have to win. The pressure has risen, which I think is not a bad thing.
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I'm not psychic, but my lyrics are.
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I like some of Annie Proulx, some of those very brief stories of hers. And I love J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello. I like Geoff Dyer. I also liked W. G. Sebald, especially his book 'The Emigrants'.
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Moms come up to me at book signings.
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There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO
