Matt Taibbi Quotes
The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.
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Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am.
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The only shortage we have today is the shortage we have between our own two ears.
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I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone.
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My first time to Rome was when I was backpacking with my best friend around Europe for a month at 18 years old, so I remember that excitement of being away from home properly for the first time.
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I think that when you get right down to it, people do evolve on different issues. And, you know, I'm pro-life. And I was begrudgingly the other way.
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The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.
