Jill Lepore Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I like acting with no lines because all of a sudden you're able to express things without always worrying about the text. It's great to have a great text, but there's a lot of stuff you can't say in words, and I think there's something really nice about good physical moments.
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I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.
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Sports formed me. I was always decently skilled but lacked size, so I had to resort to using my skill versus my power. I strategically play golf because that's all I can do. It's the same on the basketball court. I try to get open and shoot it. Or I use the open space on the soccer field.
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A fig for embryo Lohengrins!I'll open all his safety pins,I'll pepper his powder, and salt his bottle,And give him readings from Aristotle.Sand for his spinach I'll gladly bring,And Tabasco sauce for his teething ring.Then perhaps he'll struggle through fire and waterTo marry somebody else's daughter.
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My body is one that kind of looks at weights, and then all of a sudden, I have muscle.
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Metaphysics has as the proper object of its enquiries three ideas only: God, freedom, and immortality.
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Good reporting is good reporting, regardless of the newness or oldness of the medium.
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Grace Kelly was a very commercial model; she had no interest in being a fashion model. None at all.
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In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.
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In 2010, one in four Americans got the news from Fox News.
