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Matt Taibbi has 108 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
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To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic…
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Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be…
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The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to…
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There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small…
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For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance for conditional…
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Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using…
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Being in the building with Sarah Palin that night is a transformative and oddly unsettling experience. It’s a little like having live…
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The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel…
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The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a…
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Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only…
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The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families…
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Popular Melodrama quotes from across the collection:
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
— Irving Babbitt
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Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.
— Grantland Rice
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On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of…
— Bobby Jones
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Being in the moment means not being distracted by the melodrama and hysteria around you. Present-moment awareness allows solutions to emerge.
— Deepak Chopra
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I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in…
— Parker Posey
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I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn't. It's a pain. But I didn't feel as they do in a Broadway…
— Floyd Dell
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Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest…
— Ang Lee
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In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.
— Sidney Lumet
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All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
— Baz Luhrmann
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So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive,…
— Douglas Sirk
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Mr. Scott Fitzgerald deserves a good shaking. Here is an unmistakable talent unashamed of making itself a motley to the view. The…
— Leslie Poles Hartley
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Fighting your ego is a melodrama of the ego.
— Deepak Chopra
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