Jon Meacham Quotes

I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.

Jon Meacham

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I've been doing my record label for 15 years called Dim Mak. I started my label when I was 19 in '96. I started putting out an eclectic roster of artists. In 2003, we found a band called Bloc Party, and in 2004, we started getting remixes for Bloc Party, and at the same time I was throwing Dim Mak parties in Los Angeles.

Steve Aoki

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If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.

Shirley MacLaine

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John F. Kennedy went to bed at 3:30 in the morning on November 9, 1960, uncertain whether he had defeated Richard Nixon for the presidency. He thought he had won, but six states hung in the balance, and after months of exhaustive campaigning, he was too tired to stay awake any longer.

Robert Dallek

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It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson.

Mike Rogers

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I really don't care what I look like as long as it fits with the thing I'm working on.

Michael Welch

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Where I think the American actor is slightly at a disadvantage is in vocal technique. I don't think that words are their friend in the same way that English actors are used to using words: understanding about consonance and how to shade a vowel to show emotional color.

Miriam Margolyes

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I don't want to be too over-exposed, but then at the same time I don't want to be too out-of-sight-out-of-mind.

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You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it.

Liz Phair

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I think the biggest part of my game that's underestimated is the mental part of it.

Colin Kaepernick

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I'm kind of a graphic novel ambassador.

Brian Azzarello

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My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'

Bruce Dickinson

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Black-marketeers are really knowing, intelligent, and ordinarily responsible people, and when they indulge in black-marketing, I think they ought to be very severely punished because they undermine the entire system of control and regulation of foodstuffs and essential commodities, and cause wholesale starvation and want and even death.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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