Matt Taibbi Quotes

When push comes to shove, we all should know most Americans want the same things, but just disagree on how to get there, which is why it should be okay to not panic if the other party wins.

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• Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Good
  • Question
  • Poetry

• My first album was completed in three months.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • First
  • Three
  • Months

• Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Opinion
  • Popular
  • Diversity

• For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Long
  • Feet
  • Safe

• While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Future

• Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Bad
  • Person
  • Jokes

• We can climb mountains with self-love.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Mountains
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  • Self-Love

• I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • People
  • Nice
  • Advantage

• If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Game
  • Play
  • Ready

• I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Music
  • Something
  • More

• Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although 'Tsotsi' the book was written in the '60s, it was only published in the '80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get finance.

  

  Gavin Hood
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  • Pretty
  • Period

• Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
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  • Growing
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• To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

  

  Laura Lang
  • People
  • Job
  • Together

• I was 13 - 14 when I first tasted stardom. In the summer holidays, my dad made me act in these films that went on to become superhits. I became a child star.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Dad
  • Star
  • Child

• If I were to do a movie about Apollo 13, I'd be at NASA studying what it took to go into space. It's part of your job to go deep, to interview the right people.

  

  F. Gary Gray
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• I always wanted to play some kind of instrument - piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn't have the time.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Time
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• I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.

  

  Edmund Hillary
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  • Think
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• An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Actor
  • Cannot
  • Censor

• I try to learn from Falcao, and Manu Riviere as well - his movement is excellent - it's really good for me. I need to work on my movement and my finishing, but seeing these guys on a regular basis gives me a benchmark.

  

  Anthony Martial
  • Good
  • Work

• I know every politician spins the truth a little.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Politician

• And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • May
  • Think

• One of the magical things about these anthropomorphic animal movies is that we can take things that are so common in our own world that we deal with, like the DMV, or moving to a new city, or our family, and show you a mirror image of those things, reflected in a whole new way. That's why animals are great.

  

  Byron Howard
  • World
  • Great
  • Family

• I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.

  

  Michael Reagan
  • Party
  • Enough
  • Republican

• When push comes to shove, we all should know most Americans want the same things, but just disagree on how to get there, which is why it should be okay to not panic if the other party wins.

  

  Matt Taibbi
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