Jon Meacham Quotes
The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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I'd like to do more family dramas.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
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Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.
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A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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I love art. I used to have a painting of Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev.
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Billboard called my solo album, 'Standing In The Spotlight,' a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to shame.
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Tone is so important because you can have a great script just be ruined with the wrong director - if they shtick it up or something. With 'Little Miss Sunshine,' I was so concerned they weren't going to play the pageant official realistically because you don't have to wink to play those kinds of characters.
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I feel better about myself when I look my best. I always find the time to put on my powder and do my chignon.
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The Catholic religion doesn't have conspicuous symbols.
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The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.
