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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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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You can always keep learning with acting, because the school is life and yourself and your friends and your relationships. I'm fascinated by it! It's infinito!
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No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
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On on-air debates: 'When I get into an argument on the air, the man can always yell louder, if a man fights like hell, he's being forceful; if I raise my voice and fight like hell, I'm being a shrew and a bitch.'
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If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.
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The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.
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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.
