Barbara Demick Quotes
Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I mean, make huge mistakes. This is the time in your life if you screw up, it's okay because you can bounce back from it.
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My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.
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Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
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I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.
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I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.
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It's clear on the one hand that an education enriches and informs a response to beauty, even makes it possible in esoteric cases. On the other hand, there's no question that someone with no musical education whatsoever might wander into a concert hall and be overwhelmed by the 'Beethoven Pastoral Symphony'.
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I'm more private than people realize. I'm not that easy to get to know.
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It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?
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Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
