Matt Taibbi Quotes
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We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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I never really got paid for 'Tell It Like Is,' but I look back at it and say God knew what he was doing; he probably figured that if I had got money back in them days, I wouldn't be here now. That's okay. I'm here. And I'm still singing the song.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together.
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You can do more, you can always do more.
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I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
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The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
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A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form.
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Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.
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There are a lot of people out there who are just waiting that we fail. They brought up the theory that we're one-hit wonders and they want us to fall flat on our noses, just to prove them right.
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Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.
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I actually did want to be an actor when I was younger, but my father didn't want to hear anything about it. And you know what? I went with his decision. I said, 'Yeah, maybe you're right. I don't know anything about acting.'
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America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial.
