Matt Taibbi Quotes
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.
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Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.
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I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.
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I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.
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It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.
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In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.
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My whole life has been a huge mistake, but what a divine mistake - doing something that I adore.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.
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If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's all laid out for you.
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I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.
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I don't know what it is about me, but I don't think of myself as sexy; I never have.
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That phrase, 'loss of innocence,' has become stale with overuse and diminishing returns; no other culture is so addicted to this narcissistic impression of itself as having any innocence to lose in the first place.
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I think I told my parents I wanted to be a writer, just so they'd kind of think I had some direction in life. It made it easier to pick out classes at college, like, 'Oh, this is writing classes, that's what I'm doing.'
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I think the sense of fairness in humans is very strongly developed, and that's why we react so strongly to all the bonuses received by Wall Street executives. We want to know why they deserve these benefits.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I was lucky enough to work a little bit with Steven Spielberg.
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The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.
