Jill Lepore Quotes

Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.

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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?

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Believe
  • Love
  • For Him

• Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Work
  • Cutting
  • Taxes

• Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.

  

  Samuel Foote
  • Born
  • Living
  • Cellar

• 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.

  

  Vanessa Minnillo
  • School
  • High
  • Free

• For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Two
  • Once
  • Decades

• We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it's good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Good
  • Women
  • Society

• 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.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Life
  • Job
  • Feeling

• The only time my workout goes a little haywire is when I'm travelling.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • Workout
  • Travelling

• 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.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Important
  • Working
  • Hollywood

• I trained myself, whenever I walk into auditions, to hate everyone in the room.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Hate
  • Myself
  • Walk

• 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.

  

  Nancy Mitford
  • Life
  • Good
  • Book

• 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?

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Good
  • Me
  • Attitude

• 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.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Home
  • Night
  • Reality

• 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.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • People
  • Different
  • Remember

• This acting was very hard work.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Work
  • Acting
  • Hard Work

• Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Then
  • Grant
  • Thou

• 'Dear Reader,' New York Review of Books, May 21, 2015

  

  C. K. Williams
  • May

• Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Death
  • Tombstone
  • Fling

• You don’t need to come up with a game-changing solution to every problem. If you develop tunnel-vision on each and every hiccup, you will inevitably lose sight of the big picture and not be able to sustain your business. Those who think more in terms of turning a negative outcome into a positive potential have a much better chance of riding out the rough times.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Business
  • Problem
  • Picture

• This, I feel, is missing a vital point: that the sceptic is often a totally honest person who, for perfectly good, sound reasons, simply cannot see a case for belief. In fact many - like Courty Bryan - admit that they would like to be convinced, but find it impossible.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Good
  • Missing

• People like rich applications on their desktop, and there is no reason why you can't have both a rich desktop and a light, cloud-based application framework. Why is it always either/or for people?

  

  Jason Calacanis
  • People
  • Why
  • Light

• I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point.

  

  Daniel Suarez
  • Great
  • American
  • Age

• Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.

  

  Jill Lepore