Eric Alterman Quotes

Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.

Eric Alterman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

AmazingFeetPoliticalCareerStreak

Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.

Johannes Tauler

BlindSelfIgnorantWithinOwnUs

What I can say that's different in American television... in Britain, they wouldn't cancel something after a couple of episodes. In the States they would. They would just decide it's not working, take it off and put something else in on the fall schedule.

John Barrowman

AmericanFallTelevisionI CanSay

I try to live with the idea that karma is a very real thing. So I put out what I want to get back.

Megan Fox

LiveKarmaBackWantTryReal

Nobody pays attention to the way a person's shirt folds around his shoulder when they sit down, but if that shirt folded in an unusual way, you'd notice it.

John Lasseter

AttentionYouDownPersonNobody

I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!

John Lennon

BelieveReasonWhatever

Utopia means elsewhere.

John Malkovich

UtopiaMeansElsewhere

I always used the free room that the G.D.R. allowed me... There was no shadow over my childhood.

Angela Merkel

ChildhoodShadowMeFreeOverRoom

When I go on location, we have a schedule. And when you have a schedule, you know when you're not working, so I train very well on location. But I also train three or four times a week at home, but today I train differently than before.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

HomeTodayWeekYouTrainKnow

It's a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don't like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that I've been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism.

Michelle Forbes

ChildrenJobImaginationPeopleYou

It's like, if I had the luxury of choice, and didn't have to worry about making a living, I would definitely want to get into whatever field it was that allowed me to push further and further comedically. Because that's the joy of it.

Mitchell Hurwitz

JoyMePushWorryLuxuryChoice

Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I learned to drive. Z happened the weekend after I landed my first job. We remember events by positioning them in time relative to other events.

Joshua Foer

MemoriesTimeJobVacationDrive

You know, a lot of people say they didn't want to die until the Red Sox won the World Series. Well, there could be a lot of busy ambulances tomorrow.

Johnny Damon

RedTomorrowPeopleWorldBusyDie

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