Timothy D. Snyder Quotes

Democracy only has substance if there's the rule of law. That is, if people believe that the votes are going to be counted, and they are counted. If they believe that there's a judiciary out there that will make sense of things if there's some challenge. If there isn't rule of law, people will be afraid to vote the way they want to vote.

Timothy D. Snyder

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 18, 1969

Topics

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I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.

Jim Evans

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During 'Will & Grace,' we had so many things we had to go to where you get all dolled up. It's like pulling teeth for me.

Megan Mullally

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The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation.

Matthew Desmond

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Job was astonished at seeing Almighty God so intent on doing good to us that He seems to have nothing more at heart than to love us and to induce us to love Him in return.

Alphonsus Liguori

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For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.

Stephen Graham Jones

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Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God.

Tony Campolo

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I've always considered myself an ensemble girl, meaning I was always cast in the ensemble.

Ruthie Ann Miles

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I think one thing that helped the sound change, it's a real subtle thing; it's just one switch on my bass, it has three positions, and I usually boost the mid-range frequency, I lowered the frequency that I boost, and that goes out to the sound system, too.

Mike Gordon

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I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.

Joyce Carol Oates

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I walked into a demo session one time, and a guy said, 'I'm thinking kind of like a Trace Adkins thing.' And I looked him right in the eye and said, 'Man, you've got the wrong guy. I'm gonna have to fire myself. You've got to hire somebody else.'

Chris Stapleton

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It's always an interesting sort of adventures that gets someone into a movie.

Peter Berg

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When I was about 14, I got a splicing kit, which means you could chop up the film into little pieces and switch the order around and glue it together.

Peter Jackson

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