Jill Lepore Quotes
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
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I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway!
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
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The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.
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I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.
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I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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Kant taught us that we should follow just those rules of conduct that we would want everybody to follow. Few find this generalization of The Golden Rule a great help.
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We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.
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People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
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There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques.
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Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
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In any case, I was less unhappy than the teammate who wondered whether the purported tribute of being a "well-rounded detective" was a jibe around his weight.
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Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.
