Matt Taibbi Quotes
The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term.
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I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
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When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.
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We believe this is a crucial next step in revealing what was improper and getting money back to shareholders who lost money.
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The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.
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The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term.
