Matt Taibbi Quotes
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I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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The American fans would love to see me fight anybody.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.
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When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.
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For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.
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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and find excuses not to do it.
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What's important to me is people just being people.
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When you finish a film, you never want to see it again.
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A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.
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I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many models to talk about innovation, there are so many typologies of innovation, and you have to find a good innovation metric that truly captures the innovation performance of a company.
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When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost.
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I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
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RADIO – DADA DIX whose monumental painting 'Barricade' now lost created such a sensation in Dresden
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The man who blames the supreme certainty of mathematics feeds on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of sophistical sciences which lead to an eternal quackery.
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We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put it in the ground; and then you water it, because you have planted it.
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As a teenager, I had to struggle alone to learn about myself and what it meant to be gay. Now for 48 years I've had the satisfaction of working with other gay people all across the country to get the bigots off our backs, to oil the closet door hinges, to change prejudiced hearts and minds, and to show that gay love is good for us and for the rest of the world too. It's hard work – but it's vital, and it's gratifying, and it's often fun!
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I wanted to be myself. Only myself.
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Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
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The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work.
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The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization.
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I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.
