Barbara Demick Quotes
North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
Barbara Demick
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
Idris Elba
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
Samantha Morton
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Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
Harrison Salisbury
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
Ted Danson
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
Jack Ma
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao Tzu
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You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.
Fernando Flores
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Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
Natalie MacMaster
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Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
G. Stanley Hall
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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
Karrie Webb
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
Vernon Howard
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
Yitzhak Rabin
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'You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both'
Kate Chopin
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Even people who say that black people are minorities, there are a billion black people in the world. A billion white people. What part of that is a minority? If you separate yourself, then maybe. But I see black people as one man. When I see people beaten on the streets of America, that hurts me. I feel that.
Daniel Kaluuya
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You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives—and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it?—your captivity and the captivity of the world.
Daniel Quinn
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If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.
Edward Burnett Tylor
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
Barbara Demick
