Jeffrey Toobin Quotes
The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
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The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.
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I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators.
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I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
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I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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A quarrelsome man deserves no honors.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn't have to pursue "the real thing."
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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
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I watched aspirationally. I looked at movies that maybe I didn't entirely understand but which developed in me some thirst for their subjects or for their context, and that became part of how I came to understand the world.
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The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.
