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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Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you; anything there is that I cannot do, I will learn to do.
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I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.
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I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how it's going to be framed.
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Some communities are formed through schools, churches, workplaces. But much of how we learn about one another as a society comes from physically being together in places like skating rinks.
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The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.
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Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.
