Matt Taibbi Quotes
Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I still keep my accent.
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I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
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Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
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When I grew up, I never – I wasn't allowed to go out. I missed my prom because I went to an AAU tournament and all that stuff. For me, it was basketball, basketball, basketball.
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I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence - laying down slabs, working as a kitchen porter.
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I've actually done a lot of comedy.
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I did my first nude scene in Mildred Pierce, and that was absolutely terrifying, but it was for an important part of the film and for a reason, and it's incredibly powerful. It's not gratuitous. I think the stuff they show on MTV is so much worse.
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In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences.
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I don't know what to do,' she finished. 'I feel like I'm the one who has to keep everyone together.
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Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.
