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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I don't think you can spend yourself rich.
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It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
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Only the general manager can mold the resources, processes, and values that affect innovation, into a coherent capability to develop and launch superior new products and services repeatedly.
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I really like to have a bit of direction, you know?
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I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.
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I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.
