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.
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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 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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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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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.
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You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
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The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.
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Don't you find that the more you know, the more you don't know and can't ever learn because there's too much stuff out there?
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In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.
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To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.
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The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
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Black is the most popular and the most convenient and the most elegant of all colors.
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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.
