Jill Lepore Quotes
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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.
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Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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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.
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We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.
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Self-esteem is something I still battle. People look at me and say, 'You've got fame. You've got admiration. You've done this; you've done that.' As far as I'm concerned, I haven't done anything. I've just fulfilled a dream of competing.
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Crazy people do not apply the principle of scientific parsimony... they shoot for the baroque.
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One of the reasons I took up the guitar was I didn't want to speak to anybody. I really felt uncomfortable speaking to people, so I took the guitar up so I could hide behind it. I'm not comfortable explaining things, because my brain doesn't work that way.
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La vraie générosité envers l'avenir consiste à tout donner au présent.
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Americans, among the marryingest people in the world, are also the divorcingest.
