Matt Taibbi Quotes

In a pure capitalist system, an institution as moronic and corrupt as Bank of America would be swiftly punished by the market - the executives would get to loot their own firms once, then they'd be looking for jobs again.

Matt Taibbi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports.

Joe Namath

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When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore. I always want it to be something I'm interested in and something that challenges me.

Jill Wagner

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Sometimes I'm asked if I do research for my stories. The answer is yes and no. No, in the sense that I seldom plow through books at the library to gather material. Yes, in the sense that the first fifteen years of my life turned out to be one big research project.

Jerry Spinelli

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I'm influenced by Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace: writers who are often not content to just stack paragraphs and have to break out of that.

Jesse Andrews

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I think that 99 percent of the time, I'm jocular, lighthearted.

Andrew Breitbart

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The central thesis of the American failure in Afghanistan - the one you'll hear from politicians and pundits and even scholars - was succinctly propounded by Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage: 'The war in Iraq drained resources from Afghanistan before things were under control'.

Anand Gopal

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Show up, shut up, and shine.

Stephanie Savage

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I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.

Slash

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Life is not to be taken seriously.

RuPaul

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I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through.

Louis C. K.

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Financially, people always assume you're good when you're a rapper.

Jay IDK

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I like to stay fit by being generally active.

Diane Kruger

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