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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Quotes

To understand why dictators fall, it helps to recognise factors that produce a perfect anti-dictatorial storm. Barring missteps such as those that led to Gaddafi's undoing, a dictator's survival can be at risk because of newness in office, poor health, or old age combined with economic trouble.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Age Health Old Age Storm Survival

A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.

You Artist Lost Know Her Polished

I'm working on Leno. He's from my home state, Massachusetts. And my home country, Italy. I said, 'Hey, Jay, why don't you have me on your show? Afraid I'll be funnier than you?'

Home Me You Country Said Why

For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.

Nation Passive Surprisingly

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Performance Vote Duty Possible Never

I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the most habitual extemporaneous speaker that I have ever known.

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

I Am Mind Speech Pen Write Torture

I was always a storyteller. I just didn't know it. I never shared the stories I made up inside my head when I was growing up. I never wrote them down, either. But I can't remember a time when they weren't there.

Time Growing Up Remember Down Know

No one wants to see or read about a dull subject. I don't consider myself a dull subject.

Jayne Mansfield

Myself See Read Dull Wants Subject

I don't believe in creating exclusionary art.

Art Believe Creating

When I go to the cinema I watch all different kinds of films.

Cinema Go Watch Kinds Different

All of my records, I produced, put together completely. All of them. Maybe Drake might come with an idea, and I might finish it. You gotta remember what a producer is. Quincy Jones is a producer.

Together Remember You Finish Come

We reviewed our process at Greylock and discovered that the best investments are non-obvious enough that they result in a mixed vote by our partnership.

Best Process Result Partnership Vote

All the times they put tag titles on me, Intercontinental titles on me, or the world title on me, the only time I couldn't defend the title was when I had to forfeit the belt when I quit WCW and retired from wrestling forever.

Time Me World Quit Wrestling Defend

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