Stephen Kinzer Quotes
Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones.
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I'm a competitive person by nature, and I have been in competitive companies, and I love to compete - joining a company where, certainly, there is a real fire in the belly to compete and bring that energy is something I look forward to.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.
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He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things seem to go together.
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'Whatever it takes' is my opinion of method acting and, indeed, any other kind of acting. Look at Brando and De Niro. But it's not my cup of tea.
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If you can't taste an ingredient, you have to ask yourself why it is there.
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Encouraging a child means that one or more of the following critical life messages are coming through, either by word or by action: I believe in you, I trust you, I know you can handle this, You are listened to, You are cared for, You are very important to me
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Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
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When we get government off the backs of our job creators, small businesses have a better chance of thriving. And when small businesses thrive, so does our economy.
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Was it worth it? Feeling better for a minute or two, knowing that the cold would still be out there waiting?
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The big lie is that the people who make a lot of money were the only ones that worked hard.
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America is the brokest country in history. We owe more money than anyone has ever owed anyone. And Obama and Reid say relax, that's no reason not to spend more - because the world hasn't yet concluded we have no intention of paying it back. When they do, the dollar will collapse.
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There's not a man in here who doesn't realize Johnny Damon makes us go. He's very important to us.
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We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.
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I never have been involved in politics.
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Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones.
