Jon Meacham Quotes
With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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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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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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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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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
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We've got to help each other, seeing as God doesn't help us. Do you see how great Jesus' idea was? Imagine how much it must have irritated God. Forget the devil, Jesus was the only true enemy of God, and he's the only friend us poor wretches have.
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I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
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When you fight something like cancer, you not dealing with a person that looks at where you come from or what's your background or what race you are or what ethnicity or whatever. Whatever your culture is, it doesn't care about that. It doesn't sleep - it doesn't get tired - so if you make it about yourself, you're going to fail every time.
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When you play the same character for a long time, you have a shorthand. You get onto the set, you put on your outfit and two-thirds of your work is done because you've built on that work for so many years.
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The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.
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With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.
