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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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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.
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There's no such thing as too much. If there's too much, then that's a great thing.
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Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.
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It's not my ambition to be a big star.
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Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
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I do believe that during the Bush-Cheney administration, that Vice President Cheney set a tone and an attitude for the CIA.
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Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.
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'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.'
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The language of communication will always need to be renewed.
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Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
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We know that when Main Street does well, so do American families.
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I like fishing as much when I don't catch anything as when I do.
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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.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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There's an amazing documentary, 'The Day After Trinity,' which is crazy good.
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The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.
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I've never been able to write narrative as a character, really. Jenny Lewis, I love her stuff, I love that she can weave these American Gothic fairytales. I feel like I sound inauthentic when I do that, so I tend to write from a personal standpoint.
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Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is.
