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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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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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
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The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.
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I don't want to get fat.
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I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.
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It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.
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If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
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In Romania, we have pledged to create a modern public service: well-educated, appropriately rewarded and above all, de-politicized.
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Any experience can be transformed into something of value.
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Any city that's worth a dang certainly has a musical heartbeat, a culture, and a scene that can stand on its own.
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I could do Daniel Day-Lewis's job as well as him.
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God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That's our job. Raising children and helping the community, that's preparing for the next generation.
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I'm fascinated with films that deal with strategy because there's a right way and a wrong way to get the job done.
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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.
