Stephen Kinzer Quotes
New media and mobile entertainment are revolutionizing the way people learn about the world.
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I think Star City should have Unesco World Heritage status. It will need to be adapted a little bit and made more glamorous than it looks now, but it should definitely be protected for the future.
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I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.
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I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.
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I didn't get my first pilot that I screen-tested for, and I really thought it was the end of the world. But it's fine, you know, you move on to something else.
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We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.
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Israel is the vanguard of the free world against the Islamic terrorism of ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas, and Iran.
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I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
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Directing plays lacked the immediacy and connection to real world events that journalism offered; journalism lacked the drama, theatricality and subjective storytelling of theater. It wasn't until I had the idea of making a documentary film about the 1992 presidential campaign that these two passions came together in 'The War Room.'
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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We do not live for idle amusement. I would not run round a corner to see the world blow up.
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Somewhere in the gray wood by the river is the huntsman and in the brooming corn and in the castellated press of cities. His work lies all wheres and his hounds tire not. I have seen them in a dream, slaverous and wild and their eyes crazed with ravening for souls in this world. Fly them.
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The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst.
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My world was small growing up. I never really left the three-mile radius of my tiny neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley.
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I think it's so important that, if I'm writing about the real world, I stay true to it. I think that kids do compartmentalize, and they're hopefully able to see it from a safe place of their own lives and, through that, learn something about empathy.
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There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug - not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope.
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When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.
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In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails.
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If we become aware of what's happening before we act, behaviour becomes a function of choice rather than a result of an impulse or trigger. You begin to control your world more as opposed to the outside world controlling you.
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The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.
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Hip-hop, which is my generation's blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world through language.
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The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.
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I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods like chili, or bouillabaisse. Various parts of the world will have a cult food that people get enormously attached to - there's tremendous traditions; there's secrecy.
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Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat.
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New media and mobile entertainment are revolutionizing the way people learn about the world.
