Andrei Lankov Quotes
North Korea is not irrational, and nothing shows this better than its continuing survival against all odds. North Korea is essentially a political living fossil, a relic of an era long gone.

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One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
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I understand those who don't like me.
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I think it's important for us to recognize that although historically black communities have been very progressive with respect to issues of race and with respect to struggles for racial equality, that does not necessarily translate into progressive positions on gender issues, progressive positions on issues of sexuality and in the latter 1990s we have to recognize the intersectionality, the interconnectedness of all of these institutions and attitudes.
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We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.
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I'll always remember 1995 as the year i found out Star Trek wasn't real
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No one messes around with a nerd's computer and escapes unscathed.
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Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion.
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Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
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The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.
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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone.
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I have carried bills concerning Sudan. I've carried bills concerning Congo. I've carried bills concerning North Korea and Iran and Iraq.
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It's very certain that North Korea is developing nuclear weapons for offensive purposes. They don't need nuclear weapons to defend their own country.
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North Korea conducted a nuclear test and the blast was so small that many scientists are saying it was a dud. Apparently, the nuclear bomb didn't work well because it was made in Korea.
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Rather than becoming the best, I want to become a singer with meaning.
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Whether or not you agree that trimming and cooking are likely to lead on to downright forgery, there is little to support the argument that trimming and cooking are less reprehensible and more forgivable. Whatever the rationalization is, in the last analysis one can no more than be a bit dishonest than one can be a little bit pregnant. Commit any of these three sins and your scientific career is in jeopardy and deserves to be.
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North Korea is not irrational, and nothing shows this better than its continuing survival against all odds. North Korea is essentially a political living fossil, a relic of an era long gone.