Jill Lepore Quotes

Americans, among the marryingest people in the world, are also the divorcingest.

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• It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Democracy
  • Ignore
  • Nation

• People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Day
  • Media

• The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Great
  • Understanding
  • Wishes

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Relationship

• For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Important
  • Children
  • Food

• You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Work
  • Eyes
  • Design

• I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Life
  • Done
  • Water

• I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • World
  • Cooking

• Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Love
  • Friendship
  • For Her

• Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Live
  • Money
  • Job

• Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Good
  • Man
  • Fighter

• Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • People
  • Work
  • Hope

• I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Language
  • Meaningful
  • Sounds

• I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.

  

  Aaron Funk
  • Play
  • Thing
  • Inspiring

• I am a big fan of movies that don't take themselves too seriously. You know you won't change the world, but have fun. Movies like 'Butch Cassidy' I enjoyed tremendously, but it didn't alter my opinion of the world.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • World
  • Fun
  • Opinion

• The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.

  

  Yash Chopra
  • Great
  • Love
  • Food

• I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Boy
  • Rose
  • Back

• I always have difficulty with the Greek tragic plays. I think the difficulty one has - which is a serious problem - is the question of belief. Do you believe in the myth that the play expresses? Do you believe in it as myth or as reality? With any play, you have to believe in it as reality. You can't act a myth.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Believe
  • Reality
  • Question

• I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles off the canvas.

  

  Carolee Schneemann
  • Principles
  • Painter
  • Developed

• Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • World
  • Mind
  • Power

• Americans, among the marryingest people in the world, are also the divorcingest.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • People
  • World