Jeffrey Toobin Quotes
Students follow rules. Students complete assignments. The job of students - in part, at least - is to please their teachers. Now, I realize I may be exaggerating a little here, but basically I think I'm right: students do what they're told.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.'
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I don't really go to clubs anymore. I'm actually quite settled. Living in Highgate with my dog and my husband and my daughter! I'm not a hell-raiser. But don't burst the bubble. Behind closed doors, for sure, I'm a hell-raiser.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
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When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism.
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I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.
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I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.
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The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.
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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
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Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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The existential trauma had a physical basis in the first electric extension of our nervous system.
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Students follow rules. Students complete assignments. The job of students - in part, at least - is to please their teachers. Now, I realize I may be exaggerating a little here, but basically I think I'm right: students do what they're told.
