Matt Taibbi Quotes
In the old days, when you took out a mortgage, it was probably through a local bank or a credit union, and whoever gave you your loan held on to it for life. If you lost your job or got too sick to work and suddenly had trouble making your payments, you could call a human being and work things out.Matt Taibbi
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
Barbet Schroeder -
Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
Karl Lagerfeld -
What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.
Gale Sayers -
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
Florence King -
I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
Lamar Hunt -
All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
Tammy Baldwin
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
Dan Aykroyd -
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
J. G. Ballard -
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Ralph Marston -
I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we could fool around, and drama was it because we'd do improvs, beating each other up. They left a year later, and I stayed in and got a knack for it, and enjoyed the whole process.
Adam Beach -
I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
Nate Silver -
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
Mao Zedong
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I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.
Taylor Swift -
I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.
Rachel Weisz -
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
Ralph Ellison -
I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
Campbell Scott -
People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
Wayne Coyne -
What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
Vaclav Klaus
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When we talk about stem cells, we are actually talking about a complicated series of things, including adult stem cells which are largely cells devoted to replacing individual tissues like blood elements or liver or even the brain.
David Baltimore -
I think it's totally up to the individual if they'd like a private life or if they'd like to be in the public eye - it's a choice you can make.
Jade Jagger -
Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.
John Jay Chapman -
I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money winner's list.
Lee Trevino -
In the old days, when you took out a mortgage, it was probably through a local bank or a credit union, and whoever gave you your loan held on to it for life. If you lost your job or got too sick to work and suddenly had trouble making your payments, you could call a human being and work things out.
Matt Taibbi