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When I was 23, I went to Alaska by myself into the glaciers of the coast range and climbed a mountain by myself. It was incredibly reckless, incredibly stupid. But I was lucky. And I survived, and I came back to tell my story.


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JON KATZ I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house...
JON STEWART When you get together with childhood friends, for example, there's an intimacy that you instantl...
JON TENNEY The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and s...
JON LANDAU I'm just thankful I'm surrounded by good people.
JON PARDI Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines,...
JON SCIESZKA Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and e...
JON MEACHAM Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the...
JON SECADA I'm a funny guy. You've got to be able to make fun of yourself. We only live once.
JON PARDI First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic....
JON LOVITZ If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the e...
JON MEACHAM Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and ...
JON TENNEY Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their...
JON LANDAU It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything els...
JON LANDAU I held top-secret security clearance.
JON OSSOFF I don't view any of the hits I've ever written as the climax of my career. They're just ...
JON BELLION I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the pa...
JON OSSOFF It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. Wha...
JON MEACHAM I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, ...
JON MEACHAM We played Carnegie Hall, and that was one time where I felt... Carnegie Hall as a legendary, very ve...
JON BATISTE It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private ...
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