Stephen Kinzer Quotes

Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace opposite ones: tolerance, compromise and humility. Almost none manages to do so.

Stephen Kinzer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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'Great Expectations' is one of the greatest stories.

Jeremy Irvine

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I was around a lot of gospel as a kid.

John Legend

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I'm on the Internet a lot more than I watch TV and most everybody I know is, and yet if you watch most late-night talk shows, it's as if it doesn't even exist.

Andy Milonakis

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My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer.

Michael Cera

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For me, there is a real line between something being the worst thing in the world and the best thing in the world.

John Tiffany

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In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Stephen Covey

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I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn't and it really doesn't have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips.

Sophia Loren

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Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens.

Tom Ridge

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One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.

Ruth Reichl

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In the IPL, you are often single-handedly responsible for the fortunes of your team. It makes you more responsible as a player.

Rohit Sharma

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When I started out, I really struggled as a comic because no one knew who I was, and sometimes I was telling stories, so it would take a while for people to get on board for things.

Mike Birbiglia

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I don't know what it is about these post-apocalyptic movies where it's like... people really want to see what happens and know what goes on in people's minds when they lose everything. With nothing left of what we had, do people revert back to animals or stay civilized?

Joseph David-Jones

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