Jill Lepore Quotes
In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps - college students and new graduates - to do what little was left of the work of the employees they'd laid off.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.
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I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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How can you think and hit at the same time?
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Curvy is something to be proud of.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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I hope to literally change the world with Black Girls Code by changing the paradigm which produces the current monolithic ecosystem in technology.
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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
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There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
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Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.
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In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.
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In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps - college students and new graduates - to do what little was left of the work of the employees they'd laid off.
