Eskinder Quotes

#1. Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage with a whimper - not the bang that extremists long for.

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#2. Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia.

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#3. We live in an age of global expectations. Our hopes have converged in many ways, none more so than in our democratic aspirations.

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#4. I've memorized the best angles in the bathroom mirror from which to see how badly I've disintegrated. I truly do go from sixty to zero.

Kris Kidd

#5. Change everything except your loves.

Voltaire

#6. I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

Eric Burdon

#7. Deal mildly with his youth; for young hot colts, being rag's, do rage the more.

William Shakespeare

#8. Hadn't one of my all-time favorite reveries been to become a cranky hermit, live unperturbed in my house, and have things brought to me like a monarch or tribal lord?

Laurie Notaro

#9. I really do enjoy accompanying people - it's a challenge and a joy when you get it right.

McCoy Tyner

#10. While holding the eurozone together will be costly and difficult and painful for the politicians, breaking it up will be even more costly and more difficult,

Barry Eichengreen

#11. In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely has only one nation carried the burden of leadership. The unipolar world of the 21st century, dominated for the past two decades by the United States, is a historical anomaly.

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#12. A part of me is missing when I can't ski, but I've learned there's more to define me and make me happy, like stand-up paddling and Jet Skiing - things I'd never done before. Or being with people I love and just enjoying life.

Lindsey Vonn

#13. Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?

Pliny The Elder

#14. Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to our son in prison in 2005.

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#15. All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.

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#16. As Ethiopia goes, so goes the whole Horn of Africa - a region where instability can have major security and humanitarian implications for the United States and Europe.

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#17. I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend.

Lady Gaga

#18. I sleep in peace, even if only in the company of lice, behind bars. The same could not be said of my incarcerators though they sleep in warm beds, next to their wives, in their homes.

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#19. Death is, in fact, oddly pleasant, and certainly an improvement on what comes immediately before it.

E.A.A. Wilson

#20. I've never conspired to overthrow the government; all I did was report on the Arab Spring and suggest that something similar might happen in Ethiopia if the authoritarian regime didn't reform.

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#21. Just accept it, Ana. You can't stop your friends from loving you. You can't stop Sam from feeling the way he does. You know I admire that you question things, but this - this doesn't have to be one of them.

Jodi Meadows

#22. I was arrested in September 2011 and detained for nine months before I was found guilty in June 2012 under Ethiopia's overly broad Anti-Terrorism Proclamation, which ostensibly covers the 'planning, preparation, conspiracy, incitement and attempt' of terrorist acts.

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#23. I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse.

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#24. I got into the studio when I was thirteen. At the age of twelve I was doing public performances.

Chingy

#25. Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated.

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#26. Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.

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#27. I distinctly remember the vivacious optimism that inundated the United States when the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s. This was not glee generated by the doom of an implacable enemy, but thrill germinated by the real possibilities that the future held for freedom.

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