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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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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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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For all three of us, the Caracalla concert was a major event in our lives. I hope I am not immodest to think it was also unforgettable for most of the people who were present.
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I have the luxury of balancing and juggling films in different languages.
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I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. I don't think the evidence supports that.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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You can't base your life's decisions on potential future regrets.
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The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.
