Jill Lepore Quotes
The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the Enlightenment and the First World War.Jill Lepore
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
Illeana Douglas -
Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
Kate McKinnon -
I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
Rand Paul -
If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig -
If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
Landon Donovan -
With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
Daniel Bryan
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
Jackie Robinson -
Barberries, or zereshk, are tiny dried red fruit with a tremendously sharp flavour. They come from Iran, where they're used to add freshness to rice and chicken dishes.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
Karin Slaughter -
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
Natalie Dormer -
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
L. J. Smith -
I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
Naomi Campbell
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
Oliver Stone -
I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
Adam Jones -
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp -
In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
Ina Garten -
I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.
Kate Upton
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
F. Sionil Jose -
Hopefully I get to do more than one Olympics in my lifetime.
Chloe Kim -
On your way towards becoming a bad theoretician, take your own immature theory, stop checking it for mistakes, don't listen to colleagues who do spot weaknesses, and start admiring your own infallible intelligence.
Gerard 't Hooft -
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.
Eddie Obeng -
The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the Enlightenment and the First World War.
Jill Lepore