Jill Lepore Quotes

It feels silly to watch endless hours of winter sports every four years, when we never watch them any other time, and we don't even understand the rules, which doesn't stop us from scoring everyone, every run, every skate, every race.

Jill Lepore

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WinterSportsTimeSillyRulesRun

As a kid, falling was embarrassing. As I got older, I got used to falling and picking myself back up. There's not a sense of failure. It's of disappointment. You train so hard to not make mistakes. When you do, you're learning from that. How do I improve? How do I get better for the next time? Through every failure, there's something to be learned.

Michelle Kwan

LearningFailureTimeMyselfBetter

The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.

Michael Mandelbaum

AmericanPoliticalTryingOpenWho

We don't take Sweet'n Lows from restaurants anymore. I don't stuff dinner rolls into my pocketbook.

Judy Sheindlin

DinnerTakeStuffAnymoreLows

I think my music speaks for itself - it backs me up.

Drake Bell

MusicMeThinkUpI ThinkBacks

I'm about to go to Sundance for my 3rd year, and Sundance has never felt like a real independent festival at all. On the other hand, it might to start feel that way.

Bob Odenkirk

StartFeelYearGoHandWay

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

Princess Diana

YouComfortComfortableAfflicted

For aspiring actors out there, I would say stay focused and don't let anyone pull you away from your goals. Shoot for the stars so that if you ever fall short you can land on the clouds.

Ryan Guzman

GoalsStarsCloudsStay FocusedYou

When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he has any thought of binding them, nor is it to be inferred that he is so foolish as to imagine that he has any right or power to bind them, to live in it.

Lysander Spooner

LivePowerManBuildingSayingMean

I think everything is a motive for money. Every thought, every belief, everything we're taught in school.

Kendra Wilkinson

MoneySchoolThinkThoughtBelief

While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subverting the law or of benefiting myself.

Kevin Shelley

MyselfLawRegretDoneNeverIntent

I'm very used to playing the tomboy or the sarcastic cynic. That's my go-to. Playing the vulnerable of a real girl that's in real womanlike situations, where it's romanticized, I'm a little nervous about it.

Kristen Bell

GirlNervousSarcasticRealTomboy

I used to go to the Hollywood YMCA when I first came here, and I was standing in front of the mirror doing curls, and I noticed this guy next to me also doing curls. He was grimacing a lot, and I noticed he had an underbite. I looked more closely and realized it was Bruce Springsteen.

Kevin Nealon

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