Jon Meacham Quotes
Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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The North Korean landscape is strikingly beautiful in places. It could be said to resemble America's Pacific Northwest - but substantially drained of color.
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I don't like laziness or cutting corners.
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There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.
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I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.
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In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
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Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.
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Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
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I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.
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I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.
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First acting gig was playing a victim in 'America's Most Wanted.' The night the show aired, they caught the killer!
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The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.
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In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.
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L.A. is definitely a Marmite sort of place for me. I used to hate it, but now I love it. I think it really helps if you know the places and the restaurants and the nice bars to go to and if you have friends there. I've got some friends over there now, and they're not all actors, which is quite refreshing, and now I have a great time there.
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The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that are not even their own, who regulate their sleep by that of another, their walk by the pace of another, who are under orders in case of the freest things in the world-loving and hating. If these wish to know how short their life is, let them reflect how small a part of it is their own.
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At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role.
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I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
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I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.
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We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.
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Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor.
