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Alexander Cockburn Quotes

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

Alexander Cockburn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Law Journalism Prejudice First Than

I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into.

Vanity Lift Kind Get Weights Really

I'm finding things out about myself as a person - as a writer - as I write, and so are the people who listen to what I do. But they have this additional aspect of how they take the stuff that I do, and so it broadens the work, and it creates this strange connection.

Work Myself People Finding Person

In real life, I have mostly gone for nice guys. I definitely had a phase where I was like, "Oh, the bad guy is really cool." It's fun to be bad for a while, and then that ended really terribly - one piece of advice I'll give to people is your mom is always right.

Life Fun People Cool Mom Advice

When I started in 1978, the greatest wine in Spain, Vega Sicilia, wasn't even imported to the United States. The alleged greatest Australian wine, Penfolds Grange, wasn't imported to the United States. There were no by-the-glass programs. Sommeliers were intimidating.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Wine United Greatest Started Spain

The 'indistinguishable from magic' thing is highly dependent on where a viewer is looking from and not something intrinsic to any particular sort of tech.

Looking Magic Where Something Tech

I am an English-speaking Canadian, but my entire family - Russian exiles and the Canadians they married - is buried in Quebec, and if Quebec were to separate, I would feel I had been cut in two.

Michael Ignatieff

Family I Am Feel Two Cut Been

I arrive a month premature, with my dad's brains but not much else.

Stephen Rodrick

Month Brains Much Else Arrive Dad

If you don't have to get out of bed and do something every morning, that's kind of a curse.

Morning You Bed Kind Out Something

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

Mother Son Daughter Hope Great Mom

Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future.

Michael Mandelbaum

Future Past Words Expectations Out

I would eat fruitcake if there'd been a nuclear war and I'd run out of canned goods.

War Run Eat Out Been Would

I guess I compete in everything I do, but it's always good to get out and be active and find an outlet for all of that pent-up aggression you had as an athlete.

Good You Find Athlete Active Out

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