Jill Lepore Quotes
Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.Jill Lepore
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
Imtiaz Ali -
Most actors can't make any kind of living.
Viggo Mortensen -
First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
Garry Shandling -
The fact I even get an opportunity to make one album is crazy. But if all goes to plan, I'll get to make five albums. That'd be nice.
Vance Joy -
I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.
Ted Danson -
I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
Barbra Streisand
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Samuel Johnson -
In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
Manuel Puig -
My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
Daniel Barenboim -
I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
Laura Marano -
We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
Dalton Trumbo
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Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
Jack Nicklaus -
There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.
Adam Braun -
A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
Harold Coffin -
When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.
Maggie Smith -
Sarah Corvus in 'Bionic Woman' was one of my favorite characters I've ever played, ever, for reasons that are very similar to Nikki in 'Sexy Evil Genius.' I felt that that show was taken away from me too soon, and I really wanted to dive back into that mind frame again.
Katee Sackhoff -
Once you get into a feature, whether it's a sequel or an original one, you have to start all over again, and you're creating a world, creating new characters. You're also tracking emotions. You're trying to create emotion and create a character that you can fall in love with for two hours.
Dan Scanlon
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Regularity chauvinists are people who insist that you have got to do the same thing every time, every day, which drives some of us nuts. Attention Deficit Disorder - we need a more positive term for that. Hummingbird mind, I should think.
Ted Nelson -
Teaching my kids to give back is an essential part of parenting. It's not something that's optional. Compassion is one of the basic values that I want my children to have: that if they see a need, whether it's around the corner or thousands of miles of away, they should feel motivated to do whatever they can to help.
Kate Snow -
Fortunate those who, born before science, were privileged to die of their first disease!
Emil Cioran -
Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.
C. S. Lewis -
Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.
Jill Lepore