Alex Gibney Quotes

Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is.

Alex Gibney

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• Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Media

• Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Upside Down

• I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • School
  • High
  • Teacher

• One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Death
  • Words
  • Autobiography

• We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Technology

• We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Through

• When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Life
  • Real
  • Freedom

• There's no such thing as too much. If there's too much, then that's a great thing.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Great
  • Too Much
  • Then

• Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Fate
  • Bottom
  • Dealing

• It's not my ambition to be a big star.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Star
  • Ambition
  • Big

• Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Friend
  • Profession
  • Possession

• I do believe that during the Bush-Cheney administration, that Vice President Cheney set a tone and an attitude for the CIA.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Believe
  • Attitude
  • President

• Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Me
  • Ground
  • Hit

• 'Not safe?' I asked, all innocence. 'Surely it isn’t illegal here to complain about young people these days? How cruel. I had thought it a basic part of human nature, one of the few universally practiced human customs.'

  

  Ann Leckie
  • People
  • Nature

• The language of communication will always need to be renewed.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Communication

• Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.

  

  Ben Stein
  • Life

• We know that when Main Street does well, so do American families.

  

  Brett Guthrie
  • American

• I like fishing as much when I don't catch anything as when I do.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Fishing

• I had been terrified of Halloween my entire adult life. Loved it as a kid, but the minute I got out of college, there were little kids at my door demanding candy, which, No. 1, I couldn't afford, and, No. 2, if I had candy, it would be mine.

  

  Jen Lancaster
  • Life
  • Kids
  • College

• I first came to cinema as a passionate filmgoer, when I was a child. Then, when I was a very young man, I became a film critic precisely because of my knowledge of cinema. I did better than others because of this. Then I moved on to screenwriting. I wrote a film with Sergio Leone, 'Once Upon a Time in the West.' And then I moved to directing.

  

  Dario Argento
  • Time
  • Knowledge

• 'Marriage' was not that big a deal, to be honest! I mean, it makes life easier for technical reasons: insurance, next-of-kin stuff, joint tax filing, etc. The real shocker was falling in love with the man I'm married to. I was 32 when we met, and I had really never been in a functional relationship before, had never been deeply in love.

  

  Rebecca Traister
  • Insurance
  • Easier
  • Before

• You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Baby
  • King
  • Defeat

• Once a piece of writing gets to a moment where it's not going to get much better than it already is, marinate it. If you still like the piece, send it out and see what others think. If not, it's time to put it away and forget about it for a while.

  

  David Starkey
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Moments

• Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is.

  

  Alex Gibney
  • Insurance