Matt Taibbi Quotes

Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper airplane to the Apollo 11 mission.

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• I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

  

  Nas
  • Up
  • Politics
  • Now

• I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Ideas

• Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Humanity
  • Happiness
  • Ugly

• Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Help
  • Small
  • Change

• As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean interface and seamlessly upgradeable to the latest software. I want it to be the primary source of all TV, not an ancillary device.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Want
  • Software
  • Box

• I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Act

• I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.

  

  Taran Killam
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Laugh

• I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Know
  • Me
  • Hero

• I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Great
  • Political
  • Change

• I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Country
  • Think

• I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Good
  • Best
  • Thought

• We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • High
  • Song
  • Location

• When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Men
  • Women
  • Black

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Long
  • Struggle
  • Alive

• Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • World
  • Rest
  • France

• I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Never
  • Pride
  • Away

• I'm really just a normal person.

  

  Vanna White
  • Person
  • Just
  • Normal

• But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Will
  • Happen
  • Technological

• There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Disappointment
  • Deep Love

• I came from somewhat of a musical family. I had an uncle on Broadway. My dad kind of knows how to play instruments. Although, I always find it annoying when he does play an instrument.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Find

• I've had pretty much the same crew for all the films that I've made, and I've managed to have really nice, calm, funny people. That is a big part of it, a family feeling of warmth and finding something interesting and making a platform for them to perform. It's a very difficult job, acting, in that it's totally counterintuitive to how we are brought up.

  

  Ben Wheatley
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Country

• Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper airplane to the Apollo 11 mission.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Family
  • Airplane