Jill Lepore Quotes
Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?
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Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.
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Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
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Well, the thing about my high school, which I loved, is that we had uniforms. But whenever we had a free dress day, it was prep-ville, with sweater vests and polo shirts and khakis and Dockers.
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For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
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Irrelevance is the feeling that an employee gets when they don't see how their job really makes a difference in someone else's life in some large or small way.
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The only time my workout goes a little haywire is when I'm travelling.
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Hollywood does tend to portray CIA officers as totally the honey trap. Looks matter as they do in any profession. But the most important thing for me when I was working was blending into my environment.
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I trained myself, whenever I walk into auditions, to hate everyone in the room.
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I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
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Every game, we're going to go for it, so when we get into playoff time, it's not like, 'You've really got to ratchet it up. You've really got to do something different.' Then what have I been doing the whole time?
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Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight.
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I like to be home on a Friday night. I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV.
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When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto, there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that.
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This acting was very hard work.
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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
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'Dear Reader,' New York Review of Books, May 21, 2015
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To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit, which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations.
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We are protecting Europe according to European rules that say borders can be crossed only in certain areas in a controlled way and after registration.
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The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.
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Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.
