Jill Lepore Quotes
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
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The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.
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We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.
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The growth in emissions is coming from the developing world. So if we are going to get out of this, it's going to come out of a process of cooperation and collaboration. That's why it really requires a paradigm shift.
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It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.
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Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.
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Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir mystery. Maybe his Tourette's is a gimmick, but it's a gimmick with depth, with soul.
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I'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material.
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You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change.
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I'm sick of running away from things.
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A major celebrity is a major brand, and major brands pick very critically what other brands they're going to associate with. So an A-list celebrity usually picks an A-list brand.
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When Fashion Week ends, I miss the shows and the shot of adrenaline that comes with them. Each day is a new show, a new fitting, and you make new friends. Every season you get to know the other girls a little better.
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My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.
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Unless the issue of the empowerment of women is addressed, the practice of women being unfairly treated will remain unresolved.
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What is wealth? A dream of fools.
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When you finish a film, you never want to see it again.
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We don't have a revenue problem in Annapolis. We have a spending problem we need to control.
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Perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly.
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You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that habitat and you will exterminate the species as surely as if you had shot it. So conservation means that we have to preserve forest and grassland, river and lake, even the sea itself. This is vital not only for the preservation of animal life generally, but for the future existence of man himself - a point that seems to escape many people.
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I feel more people can relate to the D-list than the A-list.
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I'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am.
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In 2010, one in four Americans got the news from Fox News.
