Jeffrey Toobin Quotes
My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world we've long known and the world that will become.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
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Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you can always cook. You can end up in small village in Peru where somebody's cooking, take a spoon and taste it, and you might not be too sure what you're eating, but you can taste the soul in the food. That's what is beautiful with food.
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I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscrapers.
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You got to expand the sound to expand your horizon and your fanbase.
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I starved and slept on park benches. I wrapped myself in the pages of my manuscript to keep warm. For two and a half years I took odd jobs; nothing was going to deter me.
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Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.
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With the World War II era, there's so much written material to draw on. When you go back to the 14th century, you have to imagine more.
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My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world we've long known and the world that will become.
