Matt Taibbi Quotes
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
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We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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He who can believe himself well, will be well.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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Teams that play together beat those teams with superior players who play more as individuals.
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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Medicaid protects impoverished children, the frail elderly and people in crisis, .. Its limited resources will be further stretched serving hurricane victims. Proponents of Medicaid cuts either undervalue Medicaid assistance or underestimate American compassion.
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The reason to consider life and what's of value is to make sure you're not missing out. Seize the day. What's important to you? What do you care about? What matters? Pursue that. Forget the rest.
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I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.
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When I'm fidgety, and I just feel like everything is closing in, I go to the gym. You're building endorphins and feeling good about yourself. It's saved me.
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Fluid intelligence is not a Big Five personality trait: It's a measurement of one's ability to rapidly learn and apply a rule set. As an entrepreneur, you're rapidly dealing with different issues, and your ability to switch from one issue to another is very important.
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Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.
