Rory Stewart Quotes

Nostalgia for dead tyrants and the longing for heroes are unhealthy, and they can result in the deification of a Saddam as easily as a Havel or Mandela.

Rory Stewart

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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ResultNostalgiaDeadHeroesTyrants

I was living in New York. Sometimes, our gang of musicians would go to Louis Armstrong's home and play records. It was a lesson, like going to school at night. Ella Fitzgerald was an inspiration, too, a unique artist. When you had an opportunity to be with people like them, you cherished it.

Jimmy Scott

HomeOpportunitySchoolNew YorkYou

I'm one of those people who think that stories should have a beginning, a middle and an end, and then they're over, and then you tell the next story.

Jim Butcher

BeginningPeopleStoryThinkEnd

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days.

Joel Osteen

GoodGreatThinkGood Old DaysLook

By default, most of us have taken the dare to simply survive. Exist. Get through. For the most part, we live numb to life - we've grown weary and apathetic and jaded... and wounded.

Ann Voskamp

LifeLiveSurviveDareThroughNumb

There's not much out there that people are fighting for that leaves them with nothing but honor.

Jeffrey Donovan

PeopleFightingHonorNothingOut

My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.

Amy Tan

TimeDayJobParentsMeDoctor

Silicon Valley is the engine for wealth creation. They've displaced energy, they've displaced financial services, and if we don't start including a broader array of people in that, the same group of people is going to rise to the top.

Stewart Butterfield

PeopleStartEnergyFinancialWealth

A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.

Tristram Stuart

FoodPeopleAmericanAmericaCountry

I don't feel like myself without the red lip. I feel like I'm taking a risk or something without it.

Rita Ora

MyselfRedFeelRiskWithoutLike

When Maricopa County Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio cracked down on illegal immigration without getting permission from Obama, they threatened to revoke his 287(g) status. When Sheriff Joe refused to balk, they filed suit against him with a frivolous civil rights claim.

Russell Pearce

ImmigrationDownIllegal Immigration

What you do on travel holiday is what your memories are based on. People want to do cool stuff, and this is what will shape your entire experience.

Ruzwana Bashir

MemoriesExperienceTravelPeople

Most theorists suspect that space has an intricate structure - that it is 'grainy' - but that this structure is on a much finer scale than any known subatomic particle. The structure could be of an exotic kind: extra dimensions, over and above the three that we are used to (up and down, backward and forward, left and right).

Martin Rees

SpaceForwardDownThreeKindRight

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