Jon Meacham Quotes
A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.
Quotes to Explore
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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People take things so seriously.
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I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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I like to discover new things.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.
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A child's eyes, those clear wells of undefiled thought—what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own.
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Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.
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There's a difference between a sense of humor and a sense of funny. A sense of humor is knowing what makes you laugh and a sense of funny is knowing what makes other people laugh. The journey of comedy, in a sense, is negotiating those two worlds.
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There are two things a Highlander likes naked, and the other one is Malt Whisky
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A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.
