Jill Lepore Quotes
Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular.Jill Lepore
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Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.
M. J. Rose -
All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
Felice Picano -
I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
Karen Bender -
Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
Nazanin Boniadi -
I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.
Frances O'Connor -
I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
Fareed Zakaria
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Speed can't always get you wickets.
Kapil Dev -
I think that what I'd like to instil is that if you join the youth theatre, it's a gateway into greater career prospects.
Sam Heughan -
Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
Harald zur Hausen -
Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
Jackee Harry -
My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
Jack Whitehall
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
Ida Lupino -
I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
Lady Gaga -
In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
Eddy Cue -
Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
Orhan Pamuk -
In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
Lars von Trier
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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
Karl Kraus -
I loathe all this blind rushing pell-mell into a struggle arranged by the mighty minority and paid for with the lives of young men who are drugged on trumped-up ideals.
Fannie Hurst -
I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.
William P. Leahy -
I love 'Latina'! You guys have always been so supportive of me and my career. Now I have my family, and it's just awesome.
Christine Flores -
I'm all about working. I'm a really hard worker, and I'm taking advantage of all those different opportunities, on the music and acting side, because I love both.
Diego Boneta -
Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular.
Jill Lepore