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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Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country.
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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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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Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.
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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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I love rehearsing; it's the best part of the job.
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You want your children to love the nanny, but at the same time, you want to stay the mother, and you want to be the most-loved. So there is a sort of jealousy between the mother and the nanny.
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When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.
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If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.
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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.
