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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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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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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I used to sing in church, too. Not like in the choir or anything, but for people around the church... on the church bus going home and Christmas plays.
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Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission.
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Everything I've experienced, things that my friends have experienced and we talk about, things that are on the news - all aspects of life are in my message.
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One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place.
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Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.
