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Alexander Cockburn Quotes

Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.

Alexander Cockburn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Environmental You Citizen Wear Badge

I don't know which is stronger: the thrill of winning or the fear of failure. I don't know which one affects me most. I don't know where the middle is.

Failure Fear Me Winning Stronger

Am I really an author if I just put pictures in a book?

Book Pictures Just Really Am Put

I've always had a burning desire to help people and make a difference in the world. I didn't know how I could do that in modelling when it can be such a fake world. But my dad told me I could make a difference by being true to myself and teaching people what I've learnt about spirituality, health and nutrition.

Health Myself People Me World Fake

I do tend to use watercolors - I love the splatter sort of thing you can do with watercolors.

Love You Use Sort Watercolors Thing

I'm not saying it never occurred to me to want to write a masterpiece, but I really doubt I could.

Me Saying Doubt Want Masterpiece

I think whenever we think of our hometowns, we tend to think of very specific people: with whom you rode on the school bus, who was your next door neighbor you were playing with, who your girlfriend was. It's always something very specific.

Joyce Carol Oates

School People Door Think You Bus

Anyone who's had a finger pointed at them and been told they're pretty or attractive, there's a power that comes with that. But beauty for a woman becomes cumbersome because it's always being equated with youth.

Beauty Power Woman Youth Always

I'm trying all kinds of crazy stuff at house shows just for my own amusement and to see what the people are gonna do.

People Crazy Trying House My Own

To be honest, I was never very ambitious. And I still am not.

Christopher Walken

Never Honest To Be Honest Ambitious

Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.

Feel Look Honest Books Somebody How

I had the opportunity to be around my kids a lot. I guess I could have kept working, but I had them when I was 47. You only get to see all this stuff once. I just chose to work at home and watch them.

Work Home Opportunity You See Watch

I learned that if we set our mind to things, we can accomplish almost anything no matter what the circumstances are.

Mind Accomplish Circumstances Matter

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