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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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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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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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don't respond to that the way I used to.
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I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.
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I find love stories satisfying when you can see the work - when you can really watch people find each other and fall in love, a little bit at a time. I like slow burns. Falling in love is so good; why would you want to rush it?
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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
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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.
