Matt Taibbi Quotes
2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction.Matt Taibbi
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
Kapil Sibal -
If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
Brown Campbell -
Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
Ted Rall -
I started working out, eating a good diet, and just did everything I could that I thought would benefit me. I also started studying a lot harder in school. It matured me a remarkable amount and made me completely focused.
Becky Lynch -
I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
Camille Paglia -
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Fannie Hurst
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
Walter Bagehot -
Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.
Larry Kramer -
The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
Earl Weaver -
Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
Natalie Massenet -
Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
Zaha Hadid -
I'm so excited and honored to be part of 'Entertainment Tonight!' 'E.T.' was the show that started all the entertainment news, so I couldn't be more thrilled.
Nancy O'Dell
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I read comics and stuff. I buy a lot of comics, a lot of films and boxsets.
Ed Gamble -
My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
Dan Jenkins -
It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
Irina Shayk -
The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
Aasif Mandvi -
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
Warren Bennis
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To me, you can be young in your mind, in the way you think, but if your body don't come with that, then it's wishful thinking.
Bernard Hopkins -
I'm not ready to die yet. I have, like, 40 years left that I have to make up for all of the trouble I caused in my first 50 years.
Lisa Lampanelli -
The Second Amendment is very important, but we have to have commonsense gun safety.
Deborah K. Ross -
You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?
Malcolm Gladwell -
2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction.
Matt Taibbi