Jill Lepore Quotes
Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.
Quotes to Explore
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Acting is my number one, but dancing will always be a part of who I am and in my heart. I love doing stunts when they are a part of my acting.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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I think I'm lucky having parents that have been in show business for a while, and they don't care about the shiny stuff so much. They raised me in that way - to stay grounded, not to chase the shiny, pretty things.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple.
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Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
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AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.'
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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I definitely relate so much to a lot of women in comedy, but I don't love segregating the genders. I'm just as influenced by male comedians as I am female comedians.
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As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.
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After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.
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You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.
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I like to eat chocolate and pizza - that's my vice! - just like everyone else, but if I do it I have to keep it under control.
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Nonprofits are the intermediaries between generosity and social change.
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I'm very affected by what I watch and read.
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I wanted to make a concrete impression; the idea of a woman that is free, moody, never the object, one that has a complete control of her finances and knows how it is to be independent.
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Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.
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Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel.
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She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death.
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I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I'm not here to preach hate or push people down.
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Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.
