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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All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles.
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There has not been one day since I left that I have not thought about Haiti.
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I totally regret as a German what happened at this point of history. But when people ask me are you, as a German, feel responsible for the Holocaust? No, because I'm born 1965 and it would be completely un-logical to say I'm responsible, but as a country we are responsible.
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Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show.
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I'd love to work with Missy Elliott. I'd love to work with Bonnie Raitt. I'd love, love, love to work with Barbra Streisand. I'm reaching, because why not? You don't know what's going to happen in this life.
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The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.
