Alexander Cockburn Quotes

England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal dust and smoke, from the grit stirred up every day by the jackhammers still clearing out rubble from the Blitz.

Alexander Cockburn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 6, 1941 - July 21, 2012

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The thing I try to tell people who are just starting in the business is to listen to yourself, trust yourself, and be kind to yourself. And do the work to cultivate who you are and what your point of view is. Don't try to be like anybody else. That's what will make you an interesting artist.

Jessie Mueller

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The disabled people that do sport, they don't think about what they don't have but try to get better with what they do have. That is the same for me.

Johan Cruyff

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It is the right of a democratically elected parliament to act in defence of our traditional liberties, and everything should be done to keep it that way.

Jeremy Corbyn

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I achieved my personal dream and completed my transition to be able to live life as a woman.

Andreja Pejic

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Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life.

John Oliver

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So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

Stephen Carter

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On Aug. 19, 1953, Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh of Iran became the first victim of a C.I.A. coup. Ten months later, on June 27, 1954, President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala became the second.

Stephen Kinzer

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I've been mayor for five years. I've led a city. And directed a police department. I know how to use resources.

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

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I have days where I feel like crap and I look at my body and I'm like, 'I haven't been able to work out as much. I can see my butt drooping a little bit.' And I'm just like, 'Oh well.'

Stacy Keibler

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I am a permanent legal resident of this country, I was born in Korea; my parents came to America for a better life for our family, I've lived here nearly my whole life, and even though I consider myself through and through Korean and American, I guess when it comes down to it, anyone can take away my identity. It doesn't belong to me.

Su-chin Pak

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What drives me is trying to be perfect.

Tony Gwynn

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You are overwhelmed, overscheduled, and dejected because you keep trying to have it all - or at least most of it. You want a fulfilling job and personal life, and it's not working. The way out? Work more.

Mary H.K. Choi

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