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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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
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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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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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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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Shoes are a big thing for me, just because it's hard to find shoes that fit me correctly.
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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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Whatever it is that people find that they want to work on they also have to remember that they are human beings and they need to save some time for themselves for personal growth, for mental health, for their families, their loved ones so that they will have the strength to continue doing that work.
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The doctrine of Christ crucified is the strength of a Minister. I, for one, would not be without it for all the world.
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Conservatives are very upset at the idea of a single-mom family. But they do their best to create a lot of them by sending American men off to war to be killed.
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Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.
