"Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction,……" — Jill Lepore
"Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays."
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60 Quotes by Jill Lepore
Jill Lepore has 60 quotes on this site.
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Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the…
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History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish,…
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A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in…
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The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.
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History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the…
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Jane Francklyne, born in 1565, had lived for less than a month. She left very little behind. She was buried…
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Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s.
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Disrupt, and you will be saved.
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In antihistory, time is an illusion.
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Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life…
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Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror.
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The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world…
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More Childhood Quotes
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
— Diane Ackerman
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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
— Lance Armstrong
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
— Fred Astaire
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't…
— Margaret Atwood
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,…
— Paul Auster
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
— James A. Baldwin
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I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It…
— Ann Bancroft
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Genius is childhood recalled at will.
— Charles Baudelaire
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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
— Martha Beck
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I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was…
— Chester Bennington
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