Matt Taibbi Quotes
I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, 'Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive.' Things should be better.Matt Taibbi
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I had no expectations of white people at all.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
Carli Lloyd -
Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
Fetty Wap -
Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
C. L. R. James -
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
Ida B. Wells -
The earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
Wayne Allard -
I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
Malcolm X -
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge -
I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
Samantha Fox -
No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
Oliver Cromwell -
I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.
Felicity Huffman
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore -
As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.
Young Jeezy -
The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
W. C. Fields -
Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
Damian Lewis -
Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
Ian Hacking
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
Abigail Adams -
I feel like I'm constantly fighting against my exterior, or this exterior presentation of myself, because of how I look or perhaps because of who I'm with.
Amber Heard -
And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.
Ferdowsi -
There's nothing new under the sun. We talk about the same things all the time on air.
Angela Rye -
I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
Zach Galifianakis -
I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, 'Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive.' Things should be better.
Matt Taibbi