Alex Gibney Quotes
I remember when I did my Enron film, my executive producers at the time felt very strongly that I should mock the Enron executives more viciously because everybody wanted that moment.
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The world needs some help.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
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I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.
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Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick.
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There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
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I think the concept of polo that people had in the 1920s and the 1930s was much more accurate, when going to a polo match was seen as a great day out and great fun on a more popular level.
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Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.
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There was a rule, back when I was an education lawyer in Alabama, about visiting public schools: always go on a rainy day so you can see how badly the roofs leak.
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What you did was the greatest thing accomplished by any private soldier of all of the armies of Europe.
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I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
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[T]he central problem of government is a religious one; and anyone who assumes that he can form his political beliefs without consulting his ethics, which have their basis in religious conviction, is deceiving himself either about the true nature of government or his moral responsibility for his actions
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I think it's important for me as an actor that I say these are the issues I'm going to be committed to. One of them for me is women and children's health around the world and their rights;the other is ovarian cancer.
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The very first concert I ever went to was a Green Day concert when I was 12 years old, at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ont., and I remember right after seeing them perform I started a band, and I wanted to get up in front of people and start performing. Ten years later, to be on the Green Day 'American Idiot' tour is really awesome.
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I remember when I did my Enron film, my executive producers at the time felt very strongly that I should mock the Enron executives more viciously because everybody wanted that moment.
