Stephen Kinzer Quotes

As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab affairs.

Stephen Kinzer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WarWorldEndAmericaImperialism

I want good and different parts, different from what I've done.

Joan Severance

GoodDoneWantDifferentParts

The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it's still our deepest longing - but it's now also our deepest fear.

John Ortberg

LifeFearPeopleDeepWeirdFall

If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.

John McCarthy

AttitudeAttentionWrongPersonSaid

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.

Angelina Grimke

MeLawSinWillSufferBreak

America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.

John Podhoretz

GreatTeamAmericaNationIndividual

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

Steve Jobs

BusinessPeopleThinkYouLookDumb

Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you're actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It's far better to remain a calm parent.

Shirley Henderson

LearningChildrenCalmBusyBetter

I've been playing the Wolfenstein games since I was a kid, and feel that their outlandish sensibility has deeply influenced my own writing and directing throughout my career.

Roger Avary

WritingFeelCareerGamesMy Own

Introverts probably have a higher degree of sensitivity to outside stimulus and tend to back off. In your quiet shyness as a child, you end up with an accumulation of thoughts and ideas, building up big, imaginative worlds. You have to get it all out somehow, so it goes into your work.

Matt Bellamy

WorkChildIdeasThoughtsBuilding

Blues and jazz are such a root to music.

Donovan

MusicBluesJazzRoot

My work has threads of ideas from all over the place. I try to crystallise them in something simple and direct that the viewer can then take where they want.

Cornelia Parker

WorkSimpleIdeasPlaceWantTry

Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of those odd moth-like creatures who seem to combine extreme discomfort with the spotlight with an unstoppable compulsion to leap into it.

Craig Brown

LeapDiscomfortSpotlightSeemOdd

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