Matt Taibbi
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information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE ALAN STERN NOAM CHOMSKY Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so ma... REED HASTINGS C. JOYBELL C. Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and sovereign governments to m... MATT TAIBBI RAHEEL FAROOQ Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Apples to oranges, the act of comparing your life to another’s is more like comparing an elephant ... FORREST CURRAN STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY LAUREN MYRACLE SALMAN RUSHDIE It's not about being liberal or conservative, it's about being human.KAREN L. SYED Try to look at causes and solve problems. Do not concentrate on military solutions. Do not seek mili... EQBAL AHMED JON STEWART Shamelessness is not the same as honesty. JAMES PONIEWOZIK JON STEWART THOMAS JEFFERSON Comparing yourself to the other's makes you a loser. PETER ALMOJUELA CHRISTENSEN ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it. HAMID KARZAI ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like appl... JACK HORNER To love is to stop comparing. BERNARD GRASSET LEWIS CARROLL The concept to everything above the line is comparing how we operate the school system one year to t... BECKY COFFEY How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction o... STEVEN C. ROCKEFELLER We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM KATE MIDDLETON KATE MIDDLETON Comparing apples to oranges PROVERB When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
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What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business in... MATT TAIBBI In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats d... MATT TAIBBI 2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S... MATT TAIBBI Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversaria... MATT TAIBBI The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the ... MATT TAIBBI What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subpri... MATT TAIBBI Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons a... MATT TAIBBI Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and sovereign governments to m... MATT TAIBBI The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to ... MATT TAIBBI I don't often get angered by the things press spokespeople say. Most of these people have diffic... MATT TAIBBI In the Tea Party narrative, victory at the polls means a new American revolution, one that will '... MATT TAIBBI In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like havin... MATT TAIBBI Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matt... MATT TAIBBI The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party... MATT TAIBBI You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalt... MATT TAIBBI In the '50s and '60s, journalism wasn't a profession. It wasn't something you went t... MATT TAIBBI An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on every... MATT TAIBBI The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page ... MATT TAIBBI You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings... MATT TAIBBI The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-te... MATT TAIBBI Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity. MATT TAIBBI The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of ... MATT TAIBBI You know, I used to live in Russia where you had officers in the military opening up the warehouses ... MATT TAIBBI It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the ... MATT TAIBBI It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists... MATT TAIBBI It's increasingly clear that governments, major corporations, banks, universities and other such... MATT TAIBBI The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of... MATT TAIBBI There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring ag... MATT TAIBBI Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representati... MATT TAIBBI The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a t... MATT TAIBBI We love wealth, and we hate poor people. I know people who work in TV news who have actually been to... MATT TAIBBI In reality, everybody in Congress is a stand-in for some kind of lobbyist. In many cases it's di... MATT TAIBBI There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy... MATT TAIBBI In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don&... MATT TAIBBI This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up... MATT TAIBBI If anything, the bailouts actually hindered lending, as banks became more like house pets that grow ... MATT TAIBBI I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system. MATT TAIBBI This is America: Corporate stealing is practically the national pastime, and Goldman Sachs is far fr... MATT TAIBBI Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy produ... MATT TAIBBI I didn't know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious - he was bo... MATT TAIBBI The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It w... MATT TAIBBI This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the ... MATT TAIBBI 'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit. MATT TAIBBI There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-el... MATT TAIBBI The mistake our politicians so often make with these industry leaders is in thinking they are intere... MATT TAIBBI The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progr... MATT TAIBBI It's really interesting that we've had this great Tea Party movement that is all about resto... MATT TAIBBI Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because ... MATT TAIBBI Our leaders know we’re turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can ... MATT TAIBBI What makes us feel pessimistic about the world, ultimately, is the way the media encourage us to bel... MATT TAIBBI America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we'r... MATT TAIBBI Obviously, people who commit crimes should be punished. Even people who steal socks and 'Snow Wh... MATT TAIBBI By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against t... MATT TAIBBI Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits ... MATT TAIBBI Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck... MATT TAIBBI The joy of being a consumer is that it doesn't require thought, responsibility, self-awareness o... MATT TAIBBI He steps to the lectern and does his Mussolini routine, which he’s perfected over the past months.... MATT TAIBBI People aren't pissed just to be pissed. They're mad because a tiny group of crooks on Wall Street bu... MATT TAIBBI At the tail end of the Reagan years the Democratic Party, with the aid of Clinton/Gore–led groups ... 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MATT BLUNT The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be le... MATT BLUNT Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people. MATT BLUNT In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent elec... MATT BLUNT In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an... MATT BLUNT The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good... MATT BLUNT We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and lib... MATT BLUNT Public education is an investment in our future. 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MATT GONZALEZ MATT SMITH MATT APUZZO MATT SMITH MATT CAMERON MATT GROENING While it may seem small, the ripple effects of small things is extraordinary. MATT BEVIN Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity... MATT GONZALEZ The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before... MATT MCGORRY
It's impossible to compare two bands. It would be like comparing two lovers. 
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. 
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... 
It's impossible to compare two bands. It would be like comparing two lovers. 
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. 
As for the politicians, like everyone else in America, they were motivated by money, not ideals. 
Indeed, it's not a stretch to say that most voters no longer choose their representatives; instead, ... 
"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."
To bring the matter to one point, Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to g... 
In other words, our constitution was designed by people who were idealistic but not ideological. The... 
At the time of Apollo 11, I was a grade-schooler, and I remember every time an Apollo mission would ... 
It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell to... 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
Uniqueness lies in not comparing oneself to others. 
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... 
I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... 
Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... 
Mother Superior jump the gun...
In these our cowardly times, we deny the grandeur of the Universal, and assert and glorify our local... 
Being a superpower is like being a Santa Claus that everyone hates. 
The problem with the Tea Party is they're all ignorant hillbillies who drink moonshine and ride arou... 
...never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never saw an instance of one of two disput... 
I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... 
The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... 
How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
I don't know if I have a favorite color. 
It's very special having a new little girl. 
Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. 
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. 
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. 
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. 
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... 
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. 
Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive. 
If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting... 
I love L.A., but you can get into a lot of trouble out here. 
I get bored real easy. I'm so used to L.A. and the pace that when I go home now I start thinking... 
It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. 
I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, inc... 
Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switc... 
I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflic... 
I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with 'The Simpsons' and with 'Futurama,... 
With 'Futurama,' I wanted to do unrequited love, and David Cohen agreed, and although our or... 
Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget. 
If you're wearing suits and you want to create your own sense of style, get to the tailor. 
A highway sign used to welcome people to New Haven, birthplace of President George W. Bush. But it w... 
I've always liked Southeast Asia a lot. It's a wonderful place, an easy place. People are gr... 
Oh, I think Janie Bryant is a genius. I mean, I think she changed menswear almost single-handedly wi... 
That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offere... 
It would be lovely to live in a culture where calmness was the aim. 
I think we get too hung up on categories. Obviously, the book market has to categorise things, and i... 
Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nost... 
I pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as w... 
If I wasn't an actor, I probably would've tried to get a job with the Braves. 
I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a t... 
A group of adventurers is known as a "party," and not just because they like to celebrate their succ... 
If you can't spot the sucker in the first half an hour at the table, then you are the sucker. 
It-was a tiny mollusc that caused Walter, grandfather of the greatest biologist of the twentieth cen... 
Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing. 
There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood. 
If I could film, we'd film every episode of 'Doctor Who' in New York. I have an affinity... 
I'm a stubborn guy that loses his temper, sometimes driving the station wagon in the wrong direc... 
It's a social contract we make. We're willing to give up certain things. We give you the rig... 
If I was making a tea advert, I would want to communicate about tea is that it can console you, it c... 