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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I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
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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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All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it.
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All the excitement is during the making of a film. Once I'm done with it, I switch to my next project and am excited about that.
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You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints.
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One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.
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My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world we've long known and the world that will become.