Jill Lepore Quotes
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I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.
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Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.
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I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
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If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.
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I'm the best in the world; thank you, Jesus, for that.
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If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
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I don't like the road. I love being on the track. I like being indoors and the fact I'm not battling past 200 other riders.
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I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.
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The challenges are gonna go, and your children are gonna grow, so try to enjoy this moment, and try to look at what's good, and be grateful for what you have because you will see better days.
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If fruit juices or sugar solutions are left to stand in the open air, they show after a few days the processes which are covered by the name of fermentation phenomena.
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At the end of the day, I'm not some evil guy.
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But my kids, my brothers' kids - they think about trying to top what we did.
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Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.
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Each game we play, every game is a championship-game mindset.
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In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.
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When people told me 'It's great to be here', they meant at the house, not with me.
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Continue to study and learn new skills.
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We do not need an Osami <sic> bin Laden leading us.
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Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to enlarge my horizons, to gain wisdom, to experience beauty, to understand myself better, and for the pure wonderment of it all. I read and marvel over how writers use language in ways I never thought of. I read for company, and for escape. Because I am incurably interested in the lives of other people, both friends and strangers, I read to meet myriad folks and enter their lives- for me, a way of vanquishing the “otherness” we all experience.
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Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.
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Women should be sure of themselves because women have a lot of capacities. We can achieve so many different things that men cannot. I think women are stronger.
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It's not just about checking the box on corporate social responsibility. It's about hitting our bottom line.
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I would dearly love to resist the temptation, if you can call it that, to worry. It's boring, it's anti-social, it's unproductive and it's depressing.
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I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.
