Jon Meacham Quotes

It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.

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• Aging is not uncomplicated. Creativity is an extraordinary help against destructive demons.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Help
  • Creativity
  • Aging

• I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Great
  • Music
  • Friends

• Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Great
  • City
  • Fighting

• Right when 'High School Musical' was taking off, one of my little cousins called and was really excited to tell me there was a huge 'I Hate Zac Efron' club at her school. I'm sure they're doing great. More power to them.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Great
  • School
  • Power

• The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Great
  • Age
  • Dream

• The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Man

• I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Reality
  • Down
  • Normal

• Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

  

  W. Clement Stone
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  • Man
  • Words

• I have great energy and I have great tasks ahead of me.

  Garry Kasparov
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  • Energy
  • Me

• I never thought I would become that person who loves working out. It sucks while you're doing it, but the second you finish, it's like, 'Wow, I feel great! I'm stronger and much more confident.'

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Great
  • Thought
  • Stronger

• My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Great
  • American
  • Revolution

• Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I thought, 'Oh, this is great,' because maybe someone who does look like me will watch 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and realize that they can be an actor if they want to be, or they can be a superhero. They can have a hero that looks like them as well.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Great
  • Thought
  • Hero

• What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Great
  • You
  • Explore

• It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Great
  • Father
  • Sad

• I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • True
  • Funny

• My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Great
  • Father
  • Problem

• My trainer was a great guy … who made me want to die for an hour. My character was spending most of his life in a state of hunger, and I wanted to get a sense of that, physically and mentally.

  

  Liam Hemsworth
  • Life
  • Great
  • Character

• Some people when they get older are so firm in their beliefs that you'll never move them.

  

  Brian Lamb
  • People

• There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Job

• When I became a mother of two, I decided to work with brands that remind me of family because they're my No. 1 priority. Now I'm partnering with Puffs to encourage people to get out and not hibernate inside. People should enjoy the holiday season, and if you do have a runny nose or the sniffles, Puffs is there to take care of your symptoms.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• I think what the Tea Party movement is - I'm all for it; they're out there fighting for our rights, fighting for what our forefathers stood for.

  

  Luke Scott
  • Party
  • Fighting
  • Tea

• It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Comforting