Jon Meacham Quotes
The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.
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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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I'm not a huge fan of my work.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.
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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
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I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.
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I think that there are more opportunities for young women in America than there are in Tanzania. But I also think there are many of the same problems.
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When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.
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I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!
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(On airplane etiquette) Although reclining your seat is technically your right, just like free speech if you exercise it to your limits everyone around you will think you're an asshole. 18
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The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.
