Matt Taibbi Quotes

Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and sovereign governments to manage their debt, and the scale of their use is almost unimaginably massive. It's about a $379 trillion market, meaning that any manipulation would affect a pile of assets about 100 times the size of the United States federal budget.

Matt Taibbi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Republicans aren't bad people. They've got some views that are legitimate... and I'd like to think they believe the same of me.

Joe Kennedy III

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What is it about the blank page that makes me want to hurl myself into a game of solitaire? I ask myself these kinds of questions while I'm playing solitaire.

Jennifer Gilmore

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Politics is not the nicest business, but there are still times when people do the right thing.

John Dickerson

BusinessPoliticsDo The Right Thing

Straight people say, 'You know you're just gay,' and gay people say, 'You know you're just gay.' There is such a thing as bisexual!

Andy Dick

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My presence in California will bring a new, inspiring culinary environment to life, and I'm delighted to share my creative techniques and evolving fresh ideas with the Beverly Hills community.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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Defense is gonna help me in particular and help my team, so that's what I've really focused on.

Steven Adams

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I was never involved in arms trading. In the Russian Federation, arms trading is the prerogative of the state.

Roman Abramovich

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I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

Mike Royko

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I think a lot of the people who write about me think that if they had to write fewer interviews then they would transcribe their life-story and it would be a big success. Or should be.

Jay McInerney

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One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

LifeGratitudeKindNeverPayOnly

One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture or chef culture that people can look at in a new way.

Anthony Bourdain

FoodCultureYourselfPeopleChef

After I did 'Mr. Show,' I was basically just a writer for a while. I was really young, and I kinda was like, wow, I'm 27 and I was already on this iconic show, and now I can just coast. But no one likes coasting, because you have to fill your day with stuff.

Scott Aukerman

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