Stephen Kinzer Quotes

Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.

Stephen Kinzer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

AngerRelationshipsLeadersBetween

Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount.

Andrew Hudgins

DeathLaughterMysteryLogical

Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.

Robert Kennedy

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Films have become shorter in length, jumpier in style, and simpler in story so that they can be more easily transferred to once under-exploited international markets.

Matthew Pearl

StyleStoryBecomeMoreSimpler

A novel is a collision of ideas. Three or four threads may be floating around in the writer's consciousness, and at a single moment in time, these ideas collide and produce a novel.

Anita Shreve

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I've always done things my way.

Ann Demeulemeester

DoneWayAlwaysThings

I am not a music snob. If anything, my musical taste is bad by any critical standards.

Michael Ian Black

MusicI AmBadStandardsAnything

Elon Musk wins you over with his elegant mastery of engineering, be it for the rocket or the car. But what blew my socks off was when our conversation veered way off topic. We started musing about whether it was possible we all lived in the matrix, and Musk still had deep knowledge.

Steve Jurvetson

CarKnowledgeDeepEngineeringYou

Google that, 'old white men,' and you'll find that comes out of the mouths of liberals in a daily basis across the country. They're disparaging a group of people, and it's time somebody stood up for that group of people.

Steve King

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Tony Blair is an extremely popular figure in North America. His memoir is refreshing, both for its candour and vivid portrayal of political life.

Sonny Mehta

LifePoliticalAmericaRefreshing

Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.

Trey Parker

LoveHumorMeSense Of HumorPretty

Energy independence is very important to me.

Tomi Lahren

MeEnergyIndependenceImportant

Finding entrepreneurs from diverse and international backgrounds is a top priority for us at Y Combinator.

Michael Seibel

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