Stephen Kinzer Quotes

On Aug. 19, 1953, Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh of Iran became the first victim of a C.I.A. coup. Ten months later, on June 27, 1954, President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala became the second.

Stephen Kinzer

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 4, 1951

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I adore falseness. I don't want you to tell me accurately what happened yesterday. I want you to lie about it, to exaggerate, to entertain me.

Jim Crace

LieMeYouYesterdayWantTell

We stayed there 24 hours a day. We lived and ate and slept that movie. We were enthusiastic, not just because of the movie, but because we had such a great collaborative team. We had a really good time. It was very much a family.

John Dykstra

FamilyGoodGreatTimeDayTeam

We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.

John Engler

PassExecutiveExecutive BranchAny

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

Stephen Covey

BusinessPeopleProblemsThinkNeed

I think it's important to move people beyond just dreaming into doing. They have to be able to see that you are just like them, and you made it.

Sonia Sotomayor

PeopleThinkDoingYouImportant

Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.

Robert Dale Owen

LeaderGreatMenFollowDaringMost

A depressed person is often a person who will push others away. If you are pushed away and pushed away and pushed away, you have to have an enormous amount of inner resources to keep going back.

Miriam Toews

Keep GoingPushYouBackPerson

I completely understand social media as a method of promotion and digesting information, but it just seems like a colossal waste of time to me, and there's a million other ways I'd rather waste my time.

Jason Mantzoukas

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I like someone who's suffered from both sides.

Diane Lane

SomeoneSidesBoth SidesLikeBoth

A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child's becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.

Clyde Edgerton

HappyChildBeing HappyYoungLead

The future infrared space telescope will cover that area in a much more efficient manner.

Claude Nicollier

FutureSpaceWillMoreTelescope

I've always had visions of being a starting quarterback. That's why I come to work every day.

Brock Osweiler

WorkDayEvery DayWhyStarting

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