Jeffrey Toobin Quotes
My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world we've long known and the world that will become.

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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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I was a normal American nerd.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.
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My life at the moment is a bit like my wardrobe. Organized chaos.
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I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.
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As men of the priesthood, we have an essential role to play in society, at home, and in the Church. But we must be men that women can trust, that children can trust, and that God can trust.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
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My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world we've long known and the world that will become.