"In the '50s and '60s, journalism wasn't a……" — Matt Taibbi
"In the '50s and '60s, journalism wasn't a profession. It wasn't something you went to college for - it was really more of a trade. You had a lot of guys who came up working in newspapers at the copy desk, or delivery boys, and then they would somehow become reporters afterward and learn on the job."
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108 Quotes by Matt Taibbi
Matt Taibbi has 108 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens…
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The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old…
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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…
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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…
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Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism.…
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The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being…
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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Incredibly, almost every hotel I ever played in Vegas was blown up shortly afterward: The Dunes, The Sands, The Landmark,…
— Elayne Boosler
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The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.…
— Sun Tzu
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It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you…
— Napoleon Hill
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The only difference between this and Custer's last stand was that Custer didn't have to look at the tape afterward.
— Terry Crisp
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There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward.
— Carl Sandburg
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If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never…
— Mark Twain
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It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward
— Mike Krzyzewski
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Once cats were all wild, but afterward they retired to houses.
— Edward Topsell
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