Stephen Kinzer Quotes

Every nation, like every individual, would like to believe it owes 'no apology' to anyone. Adults realise, however, that few among us are purely innocent or utterly blameless.

Stephen Kinzer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

John Berger

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Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

Robert Jordan

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My general view is the delivery of news is changing in dramatic ways, and will continue to change into ways we can't even predict.

Stephen Kinzer

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Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher!

Masaharu Morimoto

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The cover I was really excited about was 'Seventeen' magazine. To me, it was much bigger than 'Time.' 'Seventeen' was where I wanted to be.

Molly Ringwald

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I get about seven hours of sleep a night.

Mirai Nagasu

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Two of the many areas of conflict between Judeo-Christian values and leftism concern the separation between the holy and the profane and the separation between humans and animals.

Dennis Prager

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High jump is such a mental thing. It's you against the bar. It's something that a lot of people struggle with, and people experience slumps and plateaus because of it.

Derek Drouin

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I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere.

Dr. Dre

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While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.

Christopher McQuarrie

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First, the media blames us stars for not doing more films. But when we are shooting, you want us to take a break. Not fair!

Prabhas

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Exercise is overrated.

Tim Ferriss

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