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.Jon Meacham
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
Adam Goldberg -
I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
Pat Buchanan -
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?
Malcolm Gladwell -
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?
Jackie Kennedy -
We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
Viktor Orban
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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.
Ian Beattie -
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.
Viggo Mortensen -
Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.
Sam Ewing -
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.
Larry the Cable Guy -
A gun is a necessity. Who knows if you're walking down a street and you spot a moose?
Pat Paulsen -
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.
Rand Paul
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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.
Malala Yousafzai -
Nam concordia parvae res crescunt, discordia maxumae dilabuntur.
Sallust -
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.
Logan Pearsall Smith -
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Henry David Thoreau -
I was embarrassed when a businessman friend asked, 'What's the yearly budget of your talk show? What's the per-episode budget?' And I looked at him with these blank, typical-model eyes and said, 'I don't know.' I call myself a businesswoman and I don't know that? So that is my goal next year-to really dissect the budget.
Tyra Banks -
But apart from the military measures, security measures, of course, Afghanistan needs great help for building up its social life, its economic life. It has become a very poor country, neglected for many years.
Bulent Ecevit
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In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.
Richard Louv -
I worked hard to get where I am. And I started with nothing.
Kenneth Langone -
Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
Wayne Thiebaud -
I didn't use a phone until I was 14.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers -
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.
Jon Meacham