Matt Taibbi Quotes
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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Canada definitely has a strong program in women's boxing, and we're showing that women are capable, not just men.
Mandy Bujold -
Every note is a lifetime for itself.
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I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.
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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
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Everyone knows deep in their hearts that the drums are the coolest instrument, and that a band is only as good as its drummer. So I'm all for drum solos. I'm all for drummers hamming it up. I'm all for drummers standing up and kicking over the kit.
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We cannot solve a problem by saying, "It's not my problem." We cannot solve a problem by hoping that someone else will solve it for us. I can solve a problem only when I say, "This is my problem and it's up to me to solve it."
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I kind of grew up in a commune, but it wasn't a hippie commune necessarily, but it was a big house with a lot of families, we all lived together and it was the 70s, whatever that means.
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Stage is so important because it teaches me how to convey character with words - how to convey how a character reacts by the way they appear on stage. I can usually tell a playwright from someone who has never written for the stage. Did the character work? Did the dialogue reveal who the character is?
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Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.
