Jon Meacham Quotes

The lesson of the Clinton years and of Obama's win of both the nomination and the general election in 2008 is that Democrats need to be as tough as JFK was.

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• Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Work
  • Love
  • Wonderful

• You can't get emotional about your work.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Work
  • You
  • Emotional

• I'm a registered, vetted gun owner, but that's because I live way out in the country, like way out in the middle of nowhere.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Live
  • Country
  • Gun

• I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Different
  • Kind

• Every other year, I was the new boy. I found that the only way to survive was to embrace it, make a little fortress on the outside and to pretend to blend in but not to invest too much because you'll be somewhere else next year.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Boy
  • New
  • Year

• The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Done
  • Job
  • Best

• I just like to explore all sorts of different forms - no, 'explore' is not even the word - enjoy. You don't want to limit yourself to a particular form.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Different
  • Enjoy
  • Yourself

• There isn't a country I ain't touch in Africa. I just came back from South of France, I toured China, Japan, wherever you name, 60,000 people come out to see Fat Joe.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Country
  • Name

• God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.

  

  Oral Roberts
  • God
  • You
  • Person

• The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Will
  • Order
  • Divine

• True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.

  

  Tara Brach
  • True
  • Nature
  • Happiness

• We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Professional
  • Successful

• Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Violence
  • After
  • Ended

• I think that we shouldn't be fixated all the time on the ups and downs of the weekly ratings, of the quarter-hour ratings.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Time
  • Think
  • Ups And Downs

• I have Bob Dylan lyrics on my ribs. I'm a diehard Dylan fan, and my dad and I joke that if I ever met him, I'd have him sign his name right under my tattoo and then I'd run to the parlor to get his signature tattooed.

  

  Carly Chaikin
  • Dad
  • Name
  • Lyrics

• I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Time
  • Long
  • Business

• It's nice to be financially secure. Apart from that, I really don't care too much about money.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Money
  • Nice
  • Care

• You have to be able to tolerate what you don't necessarily like so you can be free.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Free
  • You
  • Like

• Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Time
  • Different
  • Poetry

• I struggled with a lot of doubts around my songwriting and around what I was and what my purpose and mission were.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Purpose

• I like to work spontaneously.

  

  Chaka Khan
  • Work

• My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.

  

  Moon Unit Zappa
  • Sleeves
  • Bathing
  • Turtlenecks

• Through the seas of dreams and the seas of fantasies, through the seas of solitudes and vacancies, and through myself, the deepest of the seas, I strive to thee, Nirvana.

  

  Sidney Lanier
  • Strive
  • Nirvana
  • Fantasies

• The lesson of the Clinton years and of Obama's win of both the nomination and the general election in 2008 is that Democrats need to be as tough as JFK was.

  

  Jon Meacham