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.
Kate Voegele
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We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
Nan Fairbrother
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
Gaby Hoffmann
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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.
Ira Sachs
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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.
Jaclyn Smith
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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.
Takeru Kobayashi
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
Salvador Dali
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He who can believe himself well, will be well.
Ovid
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
Taye Diggs
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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.
Hans Rosling
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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.
Nathan Myhrvold
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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.
Bayard Taylor
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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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.
Jack Whitehall
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Teams that play together beat those teams with superior players who play more as individuals.
Jack Ramsay
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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.
Abba Eban
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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.
Sally Mann
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If a playwright is funny, the English look for a serious message, and if he's serious, they look for a joke.
Sacha Guitry
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
H. L. Mencken
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The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.
H. L. Mencken
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We've had Vice President Pence visiting Tallinn, where he met not only with me but also with my other Baltic colleagues - Lithuanian President Ms. Grybauskaite and Latvian President Mr. Vejonis. And, of course, Vice President Pence has been very clear that NATO acts as a whole. Attack against one is attack against all.
Kersti Kaljulaid
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I'm arrogant, but not so much that I'd irresponsibly save someone just to brag about it
Yana Toboso
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Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.
Matt Taibbi