Barbara Demick Quotes
We see North Koreans as automatons, goose-steeping at parades, doing mass gymnastics with fixed smiles on their faces - but beneath all that, real life goes on with the same complexity of human emotion as anywhere else.
Quotes to Explore
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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'The View' was so much fun. So much fun because the audience was 85-percent fans that wanted to be there celebrating 'One Life to Live' and the other 15 percent were crew members from 'One Life to Live'. It was just really, really wonderful and the clips were wonderful.
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Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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I don't think of myself as a gearhead or a motorcyclist. I'm not that young, and this is like another life of mine. But the people I know from that era think of me that way.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.
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It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.
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The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.
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The main problem that we have in Lebanon, and in the region, is we don't have a real peace process and I think this is the main focal problem that we have in the region.
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Throughout my entire life, I've always been a captain. I was the captain of my high school team. I was the captain at Oklahoma State University. I was the captain of the 2008 Olympic team.
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For 100 m., you have to go out fast but also bring it back, so we've been doing a lot of work on the back-end speed.
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The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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The methodologies and best practices used to develop software can be applied successfully to any challenge in life.
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If you can promise a vital and vibrant research environment as well as great students to your faculty, you can recruit some top faculty. The top faculty on your roster will then help you to attract further top students in your program.
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That was one of my most surprising discoveries when I dug into the history of average-ism: When you actually get the data, it rarely captures anyone. Which then begs the question, why are we using this as a reference standard for human beings?
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I value so many people who have to work full time, definitely single mothers. Their work is the hardest work. I applaud it so much. I absolutely love being a mother. I love his milestones. I love his smile. I love that he's talking and making sentences and telling me he loves me. It's amazing.
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We see North Koreans as automatons, goose-steeping at parades, doing mass gymnastics with fixed smiles on their faces - but beneath all that, real life goes on with the same complexity of human emotion as anywhere else.
