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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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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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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I was a not-big-enough, not-fast-enough football player who wanted a little bit of an edge on the field. I figured my own sweat, if I could get that off my body, and more importantly, the weight that stood behind it, that would help.
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My favorite artists are the ones that I can take their eight or ten albums, and I can see the arc of their life.
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[Being judge] is about being honest and giving everybody a fair shot and telling them what you think. Sometimes it's good and sometimes it isn't. It's more important to be honest than say things to make people feel better. I don't think you have to be rude, but I think you have to be honest. But I think it's really important to be specific: Here's what you did that was great and why. And here's what you did that wasn't great and why.
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I think Latin American cultures are really rich and fascinating. I like the pomp and circumstance of some of their rituals and ceremonies.
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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.
