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Alex Gibney Quotes

I'm not sure why, but I seem to be drawn to stories about abuses of power. But I'm also drawn, not so much to victims' stories, as stories that tend to show how power works. Because if you don't understand the criminals, you can't figure out how to stop the crimes.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: October 23, 1953

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Power You Stop Why Understand Out

The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims. In common parlance, it is the perfect soldier, the 'eternal sentry.' The war ends, the landmine goes on killing.

War Perfect Soldier Take Common

This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

Environmental Impact Tax Want Beyond

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

Jerome K. Jerome

Nature Men Young Want Weed Middle

I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.

Love Music Me World Proud Enjoy

The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest.

Job America Class Poor Middle Whose

Businesses look for stability; they look for direction.

Direction Look Stability Businesses

Poetry, as odd as it is, and as hard to figure out as it is, many times, it's almost something that we're used to. It's kind of like a dream language that we had centuries ago, so that when we speak poetically or write a poem about what's going on, a real difficult issue that's facing our communities, people listen.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Poetry People Speak Language Dream

I think that our task as filmmakers is to create the most insightful reality given the most pressing questions.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Think Reality Questions Create Task

If we can get back to where I can earmark money to bring it home to Illinois... to make us a stronger economy, I'm going to continue to do it.

Home Money Stronger Back I Can Us

Patrick Henry aligned himself against ratification. So did Richard Henry Lee.

Douglas Southall Freeman

Against Himself Did Henry Aligned

When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.

Antonio Tabucchi

Army You First Magazines Newspapers

Obamacare is the wildly complex Rube Goldberg contraption it is because getting the legislation through Congress required so many political tradeoffs and so many unavoidable deals with so many vested interests. But that's no excuse.

Political Congress Through Complex

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