Jeffrey Toobin Quotes
Courtney Vance and I are college classmates, weirdly enough. We're both Harvard class of 1982. Courtney, as a work-study job, was a typesetter at the Harvard 'Crimson,' the newspaper where I worked.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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I don't think the lifestyle that I have, the things going on in my life right now, you could put that on any 23-year-old kid. But, you know, I was raised right, and I'm prepared for whatever.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
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There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!
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I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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I'm a very slow and ponderous reader, but I'm dogged.
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If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.
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Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?
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I don't want anybody to underestimate the difficulties ahead.
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Courtney Vance and I are college classmates, weirdly enough. We're both Harvard class of 1982. Courtney, as a work-study job, was a typesetter at the Harvard 'Crimson,' the newspaper where I worked.
