Jon Meacham Quotes

The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude.

Jon Meacham

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LoveHateReachDownWantOut

People ask me a lot, 'Well, can you be pro-life and be feminist? Can you be conservative and be feminist?' And I think that, yeah, maybe personally you can be those things. But I think if you're advocating for legislation, or if you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.

Jessica Valenti

WomenYourselfPeopleMeThinkYou

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

John C. Maxwell

LifeGoodPeopleColleaguesMy Life

E! didn't like it when we'd make fun of clips from ESPN - they'd be like, 'That's sports! That's not our audience!'

Joel McHale

SportsFunAudienceLikeOurESPN

Lena Dunham texts me every morning the minute she wakes up to make sure I'm alive.

Jennifer Konner

MorningMeAliveSheUpSure

I'm an activist.

Michael Horse

Activist

Even though, theoretically, being a composer and being a songwriter are the same thing, in my brain, they are completely different. When I am in my composing mode, I go into my studio and turn that part of my brain on like a faucet. And when I finish, I turn it off. But with songwriting, that process is much more elusive.

Michael Bacon

I AmBrainProcessGoSongwriting

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Amy Lowell

LifeHeartMenPastWhyMore

Every player wants to be at Real Madrid, of course. I fought my entire life to be at the club, but only in the starting line-up.

Alvaro Morata

LifeRealStartingClubOnlyMadrid

Sometimes we have a match at 11 in the morning, sometimes at 9 P.M. We need to always be adapting; we don't have a match at the same time every week, so it's important to be open with everything.

Stan Wawrinka

MorningTimeWeekSometimesNeed

I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw all the different stages.

Rooney Mara

SleepPeopleYouYouTubeVideosSaw

If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It's a step process.

Russell Simmons

StepPeopleProcessLearnYouEarly

All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.

Michael Moore

GovernmentYouGoAskNaivePrey

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