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Matt Taibbi Quotes

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: March 2, 1970

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Power Teach Crime Reason Slave Used

Music is a universal thing with no boundaries, whether you play inside or outside.

Music You Play Outside Boundaries

A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf.

Child Me Thought Restaurant Approach

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

Simone de Beauvoir

Life Man Animal Giving Humanity Sex

I do dream about Afghanistan. I wake up and think I'm still there.

Wake Up Think Dream Afghanistan Up

Growth is a stupid goal. So, by the way, is no-growth.

Donella Meadows

Growth Stupid Goal Way

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Heart You Others More Open Your

My most memorable design-related encounter was also one of my most life-changing. I met Joyce Rutter Kaye, 'Print''s editor-in-chief from 1998-2008. It was at 6 A.M. on a cross-country flight from New York to Vancouver for the 2003 National AIGA conference.

New York New Flight Memorable Most

I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.

Think Talk Difficult Kid Been Who

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

William Wordsworth

Sports Day Golf Round Idleness

I think about nothing but business the whole time. Even when I go out to my after-parties, people are like, 'You're drinking water?' I'm like, 'Yeah I am.'

Business Time Water I Am People You

If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60. I don't know, that's a commercial thing, but just the fact that other people like you... there's no point in making music, otherwise. Otherwise, you might as well make it in your bedroom and leave it there.

Music People You Know Want Bedroom

Either we learn to live together and embrace the complexity of life, or we will end up with fascism again and destroy ourselves.

Sebastian Lelio

Life Live Together End Learn Will

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