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 own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common sense, is that establishing binding ethical principles is possible when we take as our starting point the observation that we all desire happiness and wish to avoid suffering.
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Loss prevention experts report that professional shoplifters calculate the value of the merchandise they are stealing to keep it under the threshold amount to avoid serious penalties and prosecution as a felony.
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As a player, I was fortunate to work with coaching and medical staffs that underscored the importance of utilizing injury prevention exercises, which contributed to my healthy and long playing career.
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Making a living is not a career. It might be for an accountant, but it's not for someone who says "I want one thing." The guy who feels that his career hasn't happened yet. The guy who has that kind of hunger, who wants money and fame.
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My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world we've long known and the world that will become.