Jon Meacham Quotes
Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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I know when you're in the business of cover sports, you look for 60-minute games and a result. It's never that simple.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
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The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.
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For decades, our dependence on OPEC oil has dictated our national security decisions and tied us up in the Middle East at an incredible price. We've spent more than $5 trillion and thousands of American soldiers have died securing Middle East oil.
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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
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Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
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The depth of your belief and the strength of your conviction determines the power of your personality.
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Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.
