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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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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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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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'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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When I exercise, I need to connect to myself and see how I'm feeling at the moment because my mood is constantly changing.
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If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.
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News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.
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It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.
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Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress.
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People say that soundstage sets never quite look like reality. But actually, they can. They can be as real as you want as long as you pay attention to the kind of detail that is given for free in a real place.
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The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.
