Jon Meacham Quotes
Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
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If I was President of the United States, I'd rather be right than interesting. If I was CEO of a company, I'd rather be right than interesting. But I'm a journalist - what journalist would rather be right than interesting?
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I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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As an actor myself, I know we go where the work is, but I think it's sad the Lyric haven't found any homegrown talent.
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I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.
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Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.
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It's nice if people can finally loosen up a little bit and just go out laugh at silliness. I mean, people take themselves way too seriously sometimes.
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A gun is a necessity. Who knows if you're walking down a street and you spot a moose?
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In cases of rape, trying to prevent pregnancies is obviously the best thing. The morning-after pill works successfully most of the time. Ultimately we do better if we do have better education about family planning.
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On my way from school to home I heard a man saying 'I will kill you.' I hastened my pace and after a while I looked back if the man was still coming behind me. But to my utter relief he was talking on his mobile and must have been threatening someone else over the phone.
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Nam concordia parvae res crescunt, discordia maxumae dilabuntur.
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Experience is always seeking for special literary forms in which its various aspects can find their most adequate expression; and there are many of these aspects which are best rendered in a fragmentary fashion, because they are themselves fragments of experience, gleams and flashes of light, rather than the steady glow of a larger illumination.
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I love Vegas. It really has the most wonderful shows, the greatest performers.
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A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.
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There isn't really any Common Core any more. Each state is able to set the standards for their state. They may elect to adopt very high standards for their students to aspire to and to work toward. And that will be up to each state.
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We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. I used to think that science would save us, and science certainly tried. But we can't stand any more tremendous explosions, either for or against democracy.
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As you get older, you become more unapologetic about how you really are, how you feel about things, and you really say it out loud.
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Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.
