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.
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You can't get emotional about your work.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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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.
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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.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
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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.
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I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
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We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
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Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.
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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.
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If you're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies to anyone declaring themselves a 'God-fearing Christian' or a 'Man of the people.'
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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.
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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.
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I have no problem with animals, I just like people more.
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
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When you grow up without a brother or sister, you tend to see things just through your own eyes. You have friends and everything, but you spend most of your time watching TV or sat in a room making decisions about your life on your own.
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Happiness wishes everybody happy.
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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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.
