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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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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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
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For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms, and did my duty faithfully, though I never received one cent for it.
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When you’re a charmer people respond they can’t see the hidden agenda you got going on
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His own infinity becomes zero in relation to that of the least fragment of the solid. He hardly exists at all. Trillions multiplies by trillions of trillions of such as he could not cross the frontier even of breadth, the idea which he came to guess at only because he felt himself bound by some mysterious power.
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Men, we don't get much, as far as holidays go - Father's Day.
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I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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Sometimes I know a film might not pull the audience to the theatres and have a great collection at the box office. But I need to do these films for creative satisfaction and give something different to the audience.
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Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.
