Alex Gibney Quotes
The job of a journalist is to find out stuff. The job of the government - sometimes - is to keep stuff secret. There's a natural tension there.
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We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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I love all things Christmas.
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Elves are cool, man.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.
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Reddit strives to be a community-oriented link-sharing and news site, which means that all our content is submitted and voted on by members of our community. We don't interfere with that process at all, either in an editorial or curation capacity.
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Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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No one goes into the office for fun. You go, and even if you love it, you're there to work.
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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
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The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
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The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.
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Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?'
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Anybody great, we're all interested in the relics. If you found an unfinished Gauguin, you'd still want to see it.
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All the exhausting aspects of my job are made worthwhile because I get to experience so many different cultures. It makes you really appreciate the memories.
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Parents will be parents. Even now, my mom asks me sometimes, 'When are you going to go back and get a real job?'
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The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do.
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Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.
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The job of a journalist is to find out stuff. The job of the government - sometimes - is to keep stuff secret. There's a natural tension there.
