Jill Lepore Quotes
Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
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One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.
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I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.
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You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.
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I was causing trouble in high school, and in order to get me to stop and to pass, they put me into theater, and I ended up winning a Shakespeare competition. All I had to do was imitate people properly, and I ended up going to the finals when I was about 16.
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History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.
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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.
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Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.
