Jill Lepore Quotes
Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.
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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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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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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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At the end of the day, I do think I'm happiest doing comedy. I love it. I know that I can do other things. I love drama as well.
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Tantra is a great yea-sayer; it says yes to everything.
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We're all working hard to try to improve it in any way in the league and particularly officiating is a big deal, ... I think we've got very professional people there, and they work hard at it and we need to be a part of helping them and not working against them.
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I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
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In France, where Franklin had lived from 1776 to 1785, he had won an extraordinary place in the public mind. The French had lionized him to the point of absurdity - or so at least his colleagues in the American mission thought.
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I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems.
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Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.
