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Stephen Kinzer Quotes

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Latin America moved decisively away from military rule and toward civilian democracy.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Democracy America Early Late Rule

The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity's place in the cosmos through science often got hijacked by wishful thinking or fabricated tales.

Life Science Thinking Humanity Earth

I want my work to influence public conversation, to turn heads, and to bear witness to this problem that's raging in our cities. If journalism helps me with that, I'll draw on journalism... and I'm not going to worry too much if academics get troubled over that distinction.

Matthew Desmond

Work Me Influence Worry Problem

After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

Music Opportunity Simple Song Doing

Fun is when you're writing a song and you're trying a rough shot at a demo and... it works. That's when it's fun. After that, it's work.

Work Fun Writing Song Trying You

I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one.

You Down Want Same Out Coming

If you don't think it's possible to win five golds, go talk to Michael Phelps.

Mikaela Shiffrin

Win Think You Go Possible Talk

In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today.

Today Foundation Independence Summer

The best comedy audiences in the country and this is tried and true, I'm not just saying it, in my opinion are Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago.

Best Opinion Saying Comedy Country

As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.

People Basketball Think Nobody Said

All brands, whether high-ticket luxury ones such as Cartier or Rolls-Royce or 'masstige' ones with luxe-y overtones but altogether more affordable, all want to grow. Even brands that may have started in a modestly niche design and lifestyle fashion can find themselves under pressure to go global or to sell out at the top.

Fashion Pressure Grow Design Luxury

I'm big on the importance of science, particularly right now at this point in time when there's sort of a systematic rejection of science by a lot of people in America.

Seth MacFarlane

Science Time People Rejection Now

This paradigm that says we have to choose industry over the environment or the environment over industry is the old way of thinking.

Thinking Environment Choose Way Over

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