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Jon Meacham Quotes

It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: editor
Nationality: american
Birth: May 20, 1969

Topics

Faith Thought Political Complicated

I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

Sonia Sotomayor

You Afraid Own Where Different Mine

In New York, working at the foundry, I was making these little figures. I desperately would like to make big figures, but I just can't do it; my hands don't do it. We were talking about making bronze plinths, and then we made one, a square one. I wrote on it, then I put a little figure on top, and it just looked really good. It worked.

Good New York Talking Hands New Top

Generally, nowadays, I'm using my own accent because casting directors want it; they like that.

Want My Own Own Because Like Accent

I will always come back to do Australian films. I think it matters. I think we can make films that people go and see. And I don't think it's too much to ask that films in this country make a profit and that we embrace them.

People Think Back Profit Too Much

The most cherished and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Love Moments Spirit Sacred Most Our

Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth.

People More Park Babe Ruth Than Put

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

Amazing Writing Speech Create Leap

I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts.

Myself Thoughts Problems Think Pride

I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.

Life Learning Confidence Day Me

Ultimately, I think, as humans, we all care deeply about our life's legacy, and contemplating our own mortality is the only real way to approach that question of legacy honestly.

Life Legacy Think Care Way Question

I want to get into some television. There might be a perception about me being only a movie actor, you know, and there's this whole new sort of frontier opening up in that medium.

Me Perception You Television Know

I never thought my face would be on the cover of a Red Bull Six Pack.

Red Face Thought Never Bull Would

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