Eric Alterman Quotes

As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

Eric Alterman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 14, 1960

Topics

WisdomGreatTimeParentBetter

I think so much in time. I always have. Even at 20, I thought in terms of time, that I don't have a lot of time left. And I want to do so many things.

Jerry Lewis

TimeThinkThoughtWantAlwaysLeft

My first single was based around the mishearing of the words 'make believe' - 'I thought she said maple leaves.' That kind of stuff is very central to my music and my life.

Jens Lekman

LifeMusicWordsBelieveThought

Our shows have always been sort of an all-generations thing, people from 6 to 60.

Andy Biersack

PeopleAlwaysBeenOurSortThing

There is only one instrument which is adequate to investigate the things of the spirit, and that is the Spirit itself. Just as it is necessary to train a man for scientific research in the physical world, so also is a long and slow process required to fit oneself for investigation of the spiritual world.

Max Heindel

ManSpiritualResearchWorldSlow

In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.

Andy Gibb

TogetherManYearBandFairFirst

The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.

Sting

EndingMatterMoreUsIrrational

I don't feel like anybody can be in top-notch football shape when you first get out there, and that's what training camp is for, and that's why it's a long process.

Rob Gronkowski

FootballTrainingProcessFeelYou

On every film you suffer, but on some you really suffer.

Martin Scorsese

YouSufferFilmSomeEveryReally

I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; it's a very specific task.

Dmitry Medvedev

SayAlwaysTaskAbstractSpecific

As an actor, you do feel very powerless... you are at the whim of the agent who submits you for a project, and then at the audition, you are at the whim of the casting director who will cast you or not.

Donna Lynne Champlin

FeelYouActorWillProjectCast

Ride-sharing is one of the biggest math problems that's ever been approached, that's ever been attempted to be solved.

Chris Sacca

ProblemsMathBeenEverBiggest

For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote it for a radio series in 1992. It was a five-minute piece for radio, and it's been absolutely astonishing.

Brendan O'Carroll

PeopleFirstRadioNowhereMiddle

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