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.
Alex Gibney
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
Wendell Berry
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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.
Venus Williams
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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
H. L. Mencken
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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.
Walter Map
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The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.
Jack Palance
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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?'
Zach Galligan
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Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.
Jessye Norman
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Our military men and women are our greatest national treasure. They should be safeguarded as such upon their return.
Tammy Duckworth
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
Ralph Fiennes
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The year after I graduated college I had a job in a library. When people underlined passages in the library books, or made notes in the margins, the books were sent to me. I erased the lines and the notes. Yes, that was my job.
Lev Grossman
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Liberals want to live downtown. All over America - in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Georgetown - there are crowds of liberals living in the gritty, ugly, dirty neighborhoods sensible people are trying to flee.
P. J. O'Rourke
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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.
Alex Gibney
