Jill Lepore Quotes

Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. You can sell a lot of junk to a lot of people by inventing a stage of life and giving it a name.

Jill Lepore

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• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Children
  • Small
  • Dad

• Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Moderation
  • Excess

• It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.

  

  Randall Terry
  • People
  • Christian
  • Saying

• Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

  

  Quintilian
  • Evil
  • Broken
  • Habits

• I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Film
  • Standing
  • Representing

• If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Life
  • Love
  • Fashion

• Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Words
  • Attention
  • Behavior

• I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Live
  • Surrounded
  • Rural

• We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Up
  • Home
  • Game

• I'm fighting hard; I'm training hard. I'm still walking over people and stepping over people to get where I'm going, and I would really like to give back, especially to my mom, who was there for me when I was a kid.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Mom
  • Fighting

• New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • New
  • Construction
  • Glass

• If you give a party, you better give it right.

  

  Aby Rosen
  • You
  • Party
  • Better

• A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Name
  • Hip Hop
  • Street

• I don't know why people feel that I am snooty. I am not a person who has ever given an interview on image building. I have never been that person, as I am very confident of what I do. People do PR, but I get completely foxed. I don't know how to do it. I stay away from the limelight, as I think my work should speak on my behalf.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Good
  • Sacrifice
  • Reputation

• Belief contains so many truths pertaining to God's Names and the realities contained in the universe that the most perfect science, knowledge, and virtue is belief and knowledge of God originating in a belief based on argument and investigation.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Nature
  • Happiness
  • Beauty

• Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Want
  • Success
  • Happiness

• The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.

  

  Han Fei
  • Men
  • Law
  • Intelligent

• I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • Friends
  • Walking
  • Pages

• If Jennifer Lopez could write songs like Fiona Apple's, she wouldn't have to spend so many hours at the gym.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Hours

• The people who run the show in the NBA don't know anything about Islam. I think that may also be why some people are against me personally-because I am a Muslim. It's the same way people can be against you because of the color of your skin. They don't look past these things. But it always depends on the individual.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • People
  • Why
  • May

• Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. You can sell a lot of junk to a lot of people by inventing a stage of life and giving it a name.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • People
  • Life
  • Giving