Matt Taibbi Quotes
America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.
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I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.
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I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.
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America is our biggest market, and I really do believe if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.
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When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.
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'The Crumbling of America' should be required viewing for local and national government, not to mention the local and national media who should be keeping their feet to the fire on guarding against disaster.
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We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.
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The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're just honest - but they don't tell you what's right or wrong. They don't tell you what to agree with or what to believe in.
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We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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The country is stronger than the result of any one election. But we shouldn't forget that these are just ordinary people. I wish Americans would look at them level, not down or up - just level. It doesn't take some special dimension to be president.
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In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.
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When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.
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I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.
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There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba.
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Being a woman in country is really empowering. It's a genre where you can truly say whatever you want to say as long as you're 100% behind your message and who you are.
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It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.
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I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.
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It's not just about you taking care of 'your' child. It's about you taking care of these children.
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Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
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My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.
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Feminism is the best movement that's happened in the 21st century, and it benefits everyone.
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America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.
