Jill Lepore Quotes
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I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
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A broad trend I'm completely obsessed with is mobile commerce. Like completely. I'm completely convinced that everybody's going to be buying from their mobile devices. Whoever can claim that space or be in that space, I'm very interested in.
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Though I made my share of mistakes, as all parents do, I was devoted to my kids. I walked them to school every morning and walked back to pick them up at 3.
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Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.
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Having long hair has allowed me to enter orthodox or religiously conservative situations with slightly more ease.
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This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.
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'Confederate,' in all of our minds, will be an alternative-history show. It's a science-fiction show. One of the strengths of science fiction is that it can show us how this history is still with us in a way no strictly realistic drama ever could, whether it were a historical drama or a contemporary drama.
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When I moved to Los Angeles, I was cooking with two guys who became celebrity chefs, if you will. I became their sous chef for awhile. We'd go to all the big names in Hollywood.
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I really do not care if it is a B-movie or not.
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I really wanted to go to high school and be normal.
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Presenting football is something that I love to do. I'm very fortunate being able to do one of the BBC's flagship shows.
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I want a guy who's going to be accepting of - one, my big 'ol, loud Mexican family - and also my career, because it's a lot. I don't want someone who's like... 'Oh, you don't have time for me'. Like, I want somebody who's sure of himself and gonna be like, 'Okay, you go do your thing, and when you come back, we're good.'
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All of us at reddit work here because we think that reddit is a community like none other. We think it can be a powerful force to change the world for the better.
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'Children,' I said to her. 'For the first little while, they not exactly human, you don’t find?'
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Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
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The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.
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I've given many lessons in many sports over the years to many different people.
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Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance.
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Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.
