Jon Meacham Quotes
We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse.
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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It's a fine balance for an athlete in enjoying the moment and being really satisfied, say, with a run, and with your day, and knowing you can make it better in the future.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.
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Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
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When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
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I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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I want to do work, but I also want to have a good time.
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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
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When I was a kid, we weren't really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a 'Led Zeppelin IV' cassette tape in the garage, and it was just amazing-sounding music, not like anything I'd heard before. I remember thinking: 'Well, if God created music, why is his music in church not as good as this?'
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I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an impulse you should trust, and that if it doesn't work on the first draft, which it hardly ever does, the commitment to revising ought to be something you embrace really early. And to revise and revise and revise.
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Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.
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I like to contribute. Even in my bands, I can't really just be the singer.
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When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.
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I think I was pretty much hated in France. The French press ignored me. There was a movement when the children of celebrities faced strong animosity.
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We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse.
