Jill Lepore Quotes

As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the less skill it requires, and the less likely the possibility that doing it well will lead to doing something more interesting and better paid.

Jill Lepore

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I love seeing tennis up close.

Jim Parsons

LoveSeeingTennisUpCloseI Love

In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already.

John Corbett

GoodGreatJobManLookingStory

After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.

John Katzman

TrustJobGraduationThinkSoftware

A big part of my upbringing was being with an instrument and kind of figuring myself out through music. So I feel a strong desire in any way that I can to help do that for other kids.

Andy Grammer

MusicMyselfStrongFeelHelpI Can

The first 13 years of my life, I lived in China. My parents were missionaries there, and I was an only child. Often I felt lonely and out of place. Writing for me became my private place, where no one could come.

Jean Fritz

LifeChildParentsMeWritingPlace

We try to make our own BTS context. Maybe it's risky to bring some inspiration from novels from so long ago, but I think it paid off more. It comes through like a gift box for our fans. That's something you can't find easily from American artists.

RM

GiftThinkAmericanLongYouFind

My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I've done.

Ruth Wilson

DoneWantAlwaysSomethingDifferent

My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.

Luke Ford

TimeHabitSpaceIsolationFar Away

In my opinion, WWE, to me, is the top of the food chain. So I'm concerned with being at the top of that food chain, which is the top, top of the food chain.

Luke Harper

FoodMeOpinionTopBeingWWE

I grew up in New York City. I went to museums so much as a kid, and I guess I didn't realize how much it affected me.

Lisa Randall

New YorkCityMeNewMuseumsKid

I always love to look at something that I couldn't make, because I feel it's enlightening. It means you are not invincible: you can respect something and look up to it and go, 'Wow!' It's a skill that I don't have, but I can understand the merit of it.

Jonathan Anderson

LoveRespectFeelYouLookI Can

If you ask a million players who they would want as manager, they will come back with a top three list of Mourinho, Pep Guardiola, or Diego Simeone.

Diego Costa

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