Barbara Demick Quotes
In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
Quotes to Explore
-
The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
-
When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
-
Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!
-
Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms.
-
I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
-
There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.
-
I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.
-
People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.
-
One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
-
If you have more money than your lifestyle, then you can either do something stupid or smart. That's not much of a choice. That's like saying, 'You are on the roof. you can either take the elevator, or you can jump.' That's not a choice.
-
Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.
-
Human nature is above all things lazy.
-
I want to try everything.
-
Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
-
Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.
-
Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
-
I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
-
The mind must first reflect upon itself in order that it may frame a rule of Justice, and not be inclined to do to another what it would not have done to itself, nor refuse to another what it desires for itself. These two assuredly comprise the whole sphere of Justice.
-
I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.
-
I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.
-
Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
-
He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached to sensuality is truly called one who is bound upstream.
-
In fighting terror, you cannot let it interfere with the normal life of civilians in Israel.
-
In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
