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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My father is an amazing person. While he was a huge star, he never carried his stardom home and always remained simple and just our father at home. I have four siblings, and we were all very grounded. We lived a very simple life: would go in an auto rickshaw to school, played with normal boys.
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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's too short not to have fun with what you wear.
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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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He said within his soul, ''This is the end: O'er all the earth to where the-heavens bend And hem men's travel, I have breathed my soul: I lie here now the remnant of that whole, The embers of a life, a lonely pain; As far-off rivers to my thirst were vain, So of my mighty years nought comes to me again'.
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Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough.
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If we are endowed by our Creator with rights, then why shouldn't those be attainable by gays and lesbians?
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A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.
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A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt like here I was an American and this is an American city and the government hasn't done enough and people haven't given back enough. Everyone forgot and the city was lying in waste.
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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.
