Stephen Kinzer Quotes
Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.
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There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.
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I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.
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Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.
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I feel like sometimes I'm so positive and sometimes I think the worst of everything or I think the worst is going to happen. It's how I deal with stuff day-to-day, it's just how I get by really, and it's probably not the best way to be.
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No matter what you do, no matter what your profession is, no matter how old you are, everybody deals with haters,
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I believe that if we are to survive as a planet, we must teach this next generation to handle their own conflicts assertively andnonviolently. If in their early years our children learn to listen to all sides of the story, use their heads and then their mouths, and come up with a plan and share, then, when they become our leaders, and some of them will, they will have the tools to handle global problems and conflict.
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The only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins.
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For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse.
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"We die," she said, "we die together. That's the deal."
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The sources of deflation are not a mystery. Deflation is in almost all cases a side effect of a collapse of aggregate demand.. a drop in spending so severe that producers must cut prices on an ongoing basis in order to find buyers.
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Carolyn [Maloney] is the kind of legislator who, whether she's in the majority or the minority, whether her party is in the majority or the minority, she doesn't take "No" for an answer, and she frequently calls women leaders and say, "I think we should do this. This is really necessary for women." And so she hangs in there and gets bills passed when people think it's not possible.
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But I wondered, how would I feel about killing someone? Now I know. It’s no big deal.
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Youth deals only in extremes.
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Will and wisdom are both mighty leaders. Our times worship will.
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We tend to let our freedoms slip away because they are tucked away in documents and policies that we don't ever deal with directly.
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How fortunate for leaders that men do not think (also, What luck for rulers that men do not think).
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It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attacking their own people, shooting at them, using tanks and other forms of heavy weaponry.
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Live High, Live Mighty, Live Righteously
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When people see my makeup, they think all types of crazy things that I'm doing to my skin, but it's makeup. It's the weirdest thing. They'll see contouring and think you had surgery on your nose. No. No. No. Look at 'RuPaul's Drag Race' and you'll see... you can make your nose look... what ever shape you want it.
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You're always going to have more traffic if you're a free website. But we've always admitted that the New York Times was behind other news organizations in making our stories available to people on the web. BuzzFeed and the Huffington Post are much better than we are at that, and I envy them for this. But I think the trick for the New York Times is to stick to what we are. That doesn't mean: Don't change. But I don't want to be BuzzFeed. If we tried to be what they are, we would lose.
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Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.
