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Jill Lepore Quotes

Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: August 27, 1966

Topics

Service Money Government Research

If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it.

People Doing Will Interested Other

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Society Others Talk Misunderstood

Raising property taxes in Alabama is never going to happen. The people are never going to vote for that. I don't like property taxes, either.

Robert J. Bentley

People Vote Never Taxes Alabama

You have to create characters - certainly in series TV - who people engage with. They don't have to be nice; you don't have to agree with them. But they do have to be compulsively watchable and believable and human, and you want to know what happens to them.

People You Create Be Nice Know Nice

Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.

Perspective Simple I Am Back Far

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

Love Happiness Power Love Is First

Just selling through a movie theater is not ever going to be a viable way to make money back on a movie anymore.

Money Back Selling Way Movie Theater

Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.

Politics Mountains Night Driving

Being in the public eye, I have certainly gone through the tabloid situation where they come out with stories that are not true. I don't read or pay attention to it.

Eye Attention Situation True Pay

Overdeliver on promises and deadlines. Show up early, deliver your product early, and deliver more than you promised. Overdeliver now, and in the future, you will be overpaid.

Future Promises You Early Now Will

I read a book called 'The Tao of Physics' by Fritjof Capra that pointed out the parallels between quantum physics and eastern mysticism. I started to feel there was more to reality than conventional science allowed for and some interesting ideas that it hadn't got round to investigating, such as altered states of consciousness.

Brian Josephson

Science Ideas Book Reality Physics

I belonged to another club, and liked the camaraderie.

Club Camaraderie Liked Another

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