Alexander Cockburn Quotes
No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul.Alexander Cockburn
Quotes to Explore
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Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
Barbara Bush -
None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.
Gary Bettman -
Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
Harry Browne -
In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.
Harpo Marx -
I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
Larry David -
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
Jack Kerouac
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In 2014, Utah cities Salt Lake City and Provo both surpassed Silicon Valley in per-deal venture capital averages. From large, multi-campus companies to promising start-ups, Silicon Slopes offers a promising climate for businesses. The entire tech industry has its eyes on Utah.
Gary Herbert -
I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.
Action Bronson -
You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?
J. K. Simmons -
I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
Laura Dern -
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
Manuel Puig
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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
Changing the DNA of a large, multilateral organization such as the United Nations to deal effectively with modern threats is not easy. Indeed, when the United Nations was created in the wake of World War II, threats came almost exclusively from one state carrying out acts of aggression against another.
Samantha Power -
We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
I'm a person who's always been interested in politics and thought it was a very noble occupation.
Maggie Williams -
I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
Edmund White -
I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy.
Harriet Walter
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You are the strongest and the others keep their distance. It is no longer necessary to win victories over them.
Taisen Deshimaru -
We can take action with a player without the league taking any action. But all that we can do is, we can deactivate him. But we're limited under the collective bargaining agreement to four games.
Bob McNair -
We are fighting abortion through adoption.
Mother Teresa -
My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
Buffalo Bill -
No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul.
Alexander Cockburn