Jill Lepore Quotes

In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.

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• Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Good
  • Long
  • Health

• I would love to be a role model.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Love
  • Model
  • Role Model

• I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Drama
  • Involved
  • Escape

• The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Politics
  • Decisions
  • Doors

• People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Time
  • Kids

• The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Think
  • Party
  • Beach

• Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Life
  • Work
  • Independence

• I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Different
  • Long
  • Think

• When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Dignity
  • Begins
  • Boasting

• I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • World
  • Cooking

• I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Age
  • Health
  • Service

• The science shows that the best way to use money is to take the issue of money off the people. Pay people enough so that money isn't an issue, and they can focus on doing great work.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Team
  • Focus
  • Body

• Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Game

• Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Work
  • Yourself
  • Speak

• I imagine there are things I wouldn't do, but I haven't been offered those recently either.

  

  M. Emmet Walsh
  • Things
  • Imagine
  • Either

• The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Money
  • Support
  • Government

• I'm a real optimist.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Real
  • Optimist

• And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark end.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Life
  • Death
  • Words

• It's a little hard to avoid putting both war and politics in, in that they both come into the activity, but on their own. My basic idea is to do a great love film set in the hell of 1942. At that moment, hell was Leningrad. Underneath all this, of course, is a film about dissension between the two most important countries in the world, the United States and the Soviet Union. I think it is a must at this point to talk about cooperation instead of the rancor and hatred and competition between nations.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • World
  • Important
  • Country

• But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

  

  Donald G. Mitchell
  • Great

• Intermittency in availability for wind and solar changes the economics, particularly this requirement that the power company at all times be able to require power. That's large.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Wind
  • Economics
  • Solar

• Take your average couscous salad, and it's almost always a sloppy mush, no matter how much attention has gone into getting flavours in there.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Attention
  • Always
  • Salad

• In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • World