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Jill Lepore Quotes

In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval monarchs rich and funded the early-modern state.

Jill Lepore

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

World Rich Labor Kind Taxes Trade

I'm excited about turning 40. I've been an adult for a long time, but there is a difference between being an adult and being a grown-up. I'm someone's mummy now and I'm enjoying that. I feel as if I'm about to hit my peak.

Jill Scott

Time Feel Someone Long Long Time

I've said it for four decades - work 'on' your business, not just 'in' your business!

Michael Gerber

Work Business Said Just Four Your

Donald Trump - you can say a lot of negative things about him, and I do, and I think he's completely unprepared for the office, and he lacks the fabric to lead this nation, but if there's one thing that he understands, it's branding and how to navigate the media.

Michael Avenatti

Negative Think Media You Say Office

In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what other people thought of me. I thought of myself as just painfully awkward and dorky. I had a lot of hair and was kind of weird. I sang a lot in the hallways.

Amy Adams

Myself School People Me Hair Weird

Ultimately, what we do as musicians, I think of us as a type of emotional engineer. We essential take these sound waves, this sound, and we organize it into emotion, and that's how we connect with our audiences.

Stefon Harris

Waves Think Musicians Sound Emotion

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives.

Tracy Kidder

Live Reflection People Me Trying

My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.

Robert Bridges

Night Walking White Angels Delight

The people need to feel the music.

Ronnie Spector

Music People Feel Need

I have twice met Jeffrey Archer, and on both occasions was struck by the firmness of his handshake - and the way he looked me straight in the eye, too.

Craig Brown

Me Eye Way Twice Handshake Straight

In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Nobody Meet Prime Forces Send Even

I certainly had an arrogant streak. And I certainly was defensive in certain cases. Maybe I'm still arrogant, but I try not to be.

Peter Bogdanovich

Try Arrogant Still Defensive Streak

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.

Norman MacCaig

Poetry People Me Think Doing Seeing