Jon Meacham Quotes

One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.

Jon Meacham

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MemoriesChildhoodI AmRiverFarm

People will occasionally ask me if I understand what it's like to be lonely. And the truth is I don't, because for me, solitariness is a blessing, a gift. Me, I get on fine with myself.

John Burnside

TruthBlessingMyselfPeopleMe

Theater originated with technology. People forget that.

Robert Lepage

TechnologyPeopleForgetTheater

At the 'L.A. Times,' I always wanted to write about artists I thought were meaningful. So I interviewed Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, U2, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Eminem, White Stripes. And I could understand how almost everybody I interviewed had a sense of artistry.

Robert Hilburn

ThoughtWhiteWonderUnderstand

Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.

Stephen Greenblatt

LifeProblemNowWayOutOwn

Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.

Tony Campolo

VotingPowerfulThreeBecomeOver

At 16, I started reading trashy stuff, anything slightly naughty and risque.

Romesh Gunesekera

ReadingNaughtyAnythingStarted

I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes.

Michelle Bachelet

StereotypesKindLike

Every How is carried by a What.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

HowEveryCarried

Hamburgers are my favorite thing to eat, period.

Joshua Bell

EatFavoritePeriodThingHamburgers

You can't make everybody happy. We just put our head down and went forward. We said, 'This music is bigger than all of us.' That's how we felt. We said, 'You know what? We'll prevail. We'll bet on these songs.'

Jonathan Cain

MusicHappyForwardYouDownKnow

Managers have people second-guessing them all the time.

Don Mattingly

TimePeopleThemManagers

I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That's the difference.

Conor McGregor

FunnyMeFoxDifferenceSeeI See

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