Jill Lepore Quotes
Some people will always think they know how to make other people's marriages better, and, after a while, they'll get to cudgeling you or selling you something; the really entrepreneurial types will sell you the cudgel.Jill Lepore
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
Jack Dee -
I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
Yuan Yuan Tan -
Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
Harrison Birtwistle -
Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
Eddie Huang -
I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
Zac Efron -
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
Madeleine L'Engle
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
Nancy Sinatra -
My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
T Bone Burnett -
The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
Ramakrishna -
When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.
Kate Forsyth -
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Edith Sitwell -
Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
Pablo Sandoval
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
Saina Nehwal -
It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
Kaskade -
The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
Ichiro Suzuki -
Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
Maisie Williams -
As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
Fat Joe -
For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.
Barry Corbin
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I was experimenting with ways of creating edible objects from digital content, and I was working to three criteria: 1. They had to be delicious. 2. They had to be personalized. 3. They had to fit through a letterbox or in a mailbox. After much experiments, Boomf! There it was: photo marshmallows.
James William Middleton -
I've lived the life of a 35-year-old since I was 18.
Megan Fox -
My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.
Etta James -
I was a naughty kid. Teachers did not like me much.
Kapil Dev -
As a rule, wearing a bigger pair of jeans looks better than squishing yourself into a pair of jeans that used to fit before you gave up smoking.
Jenny Eclair -
Some people will always think they know how to make other people's marriages better, and, after a while, they'll get to cudgeling you or selling you something; the really entrepreneurial types will sell you the cudgel.
Jill Lepore