Jon Meacham Quotes
The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.Jon Meacham
Quotes to Explore
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
Rachel Platten -
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
P. J. O'Rourke -
From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
Karen Morley -
You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
Carly Fiorina -
When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
Gary Numan -
I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
Mal Peet
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
J. J. Abrams -
I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.
Calvin Johnson -
What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.
Valeria Mazza -
I'm from a reserve. A reservation. So I know everybody. Everybody knows me.
Kaniehtiio Horn -
If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.
Walt Mossberg -
It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.
Maggie Smith
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Remember that the fans want to hear inside stuff about the series; they don't want to hear gripes and grouses about your personal life. What they really want to hear is how the series gets made, and how you interact with your fellow cast members.
Manny Coto -
Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.
Eddie Marsan -
Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
Tacitus -
I force myself to outline, but not too closely, so I guess I plot by the seat of my pants? My natural instinct is to dive right in, but I know I'll get stuck. I like to stick with the architect vs. gardener metaphor. I guess I'm a gardener who plants tomatoes. I have the sticks in the ground and let the vines grow along those parameters.
Victoria Aveyard -
The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.
Wang Jianlin -
I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I'm really anal about it, actually.
Cameron Diaz
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There's no doubt that probably at least once a week, maybe once a day, I said, "Ah, I should have done that better."
Barack Obama -
Just remember that a pat on the back is only 18 inches from a kick in the behind.
Rex W. Tillerson -
I never pushed the envelope of wanting people to know me, or be on the covers of magazines. I just want to enjoy what I'm doing.
David Eigenberg -
To improve the standard of living for working folks, we have to raise the minimum wage and empower workers to fight for their interests in an economic and political system that's stacked against them.
Jason Kander -
When I turned 11, we had to leave East Germany overnight because of the political orientation of my father. Now I was going to school in West Germany, which was American-occupied at that time. There in school, all children were required to learn English and not Russian. To learn Russian had been difficult, but English was impossible for me.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf -
The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.
Jon Meacham