Jon Meacham Quotes
The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
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Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week.
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I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman writer' as anti-feminist. I wrote an essay about this as far back as 1977, at the height of the neo-feminist movement.
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Retail businesses have narrow margins. If you cut off a flow of young consumers, it's only a matter of time before the businesses struggle and fail.
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A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag.
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The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.
