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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Quotes

If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american
Birth: November 24, 1946

Topics

Power People Small Worry You Group

As long as I'm alive, I don't think Next Media will change.

Jimmy Lai

Change Think Media Long Alive Will

Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it.

Jocko Willink

Great Be Strong Strong You Want

The Scottish Labour Party should work as equal partners with the U.K. party, just as Scotland is an equal partner in the United Kingdom. Scotland has chosen home rule - not London rule.

Johann Lamont

Work Home Partner Party London Rule

I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over.

John Avlon

Power Responsibility Believe First

The basic equation that mystified me as a young man was looking at guys who could actually get girls. I was always amazed, because they never seemed to care. I was like, 'How do they do that?'

Andy Richter

Man Me Looking Care Young Young Man

My favorite band is Yes. They are all phenomenal musicians, and yes, this means I'm subject to ridicule from co-workers and occasionally from my wife, three kids, and even our Labradoodle pup.

Steve Capus

Wife Musicians Three Co-Workers Band

As an artist, you have to do what you feel passionate about. It has to be something you can connect with.

Stephanie Sigman

Feel You Artist Passionate Connect

Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet.

Robin Williams

Heart Money Divorce Out Expensive

You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

Mary McCarthy

Work Love You Sex Force

Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it.

Mike Krzyzewski

Love Music Parents Play Go Out

I have been very lucky - all the jobs I've done have been with lovely people. In fact, I've been on many where I've just laughed uncontrollably the whole time.

Lucy Davis

Time People Done Lucky Lovely Where

I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on the real, those least diluted by my imagination.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Imagination People Me World Real