Timothy D. Snyder Quotes

Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.

Timothy D. Snyder

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out.

Jim Hightower

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I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

Ann Patchett

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It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers.

John Walters

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Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

John Sherman Cooper

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In Mexico, I think I'm considered conservative. Not politically - in terms of form and experimentation.

Alvaro Enrigue

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My sister made certain choices about the life she wanted. Those choices include a steady job, a husband and children. But balance and stability come at a cost. It is harder for her to be spontaneous. It is harder to just up and leave.

Simon Sinek

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Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

Rowan Williams

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Nobody ever pegged James Gandolfini for a leading man. Least of all James Gandolfini.

Michael Riedel

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When I made 'Terminator 3,' I learned something about directing actors to behave like robots. And one of the key things I learned is that if an actor tries to play a robot, he or she risks playing it mechanically in a way that makes the performance uninteresting.

Jonathan Mostow

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You gotta do both. You've got to be on those big tours, and you've got to be in the clubs.

Jon Pardi

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I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great.

Bryan Cranston

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I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

William Tecumseh Sherman

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