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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This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.
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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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I've sort of had an investigatory relationship with being a musician. I really wasn't sure what I wanted to do. I felt I had had my run - I had done Jane's and I wasn't particularly interested in music anymore.
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Max Askeli started this very good magazine The Reporter. In fact, Meg Greenfield, who's now the editorial page editor of The Washington Post, was one of the star reporters there.
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Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.
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As for monkeys, I would have five, and they would be named: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Do Pretty Much Whatever The Hell You Want, and Expensive Attorney.
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The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.
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I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.
