Barbara Demick Quotes
Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
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Given an opportunity, Modi has violated the freedom of press both in letter and spirit. He destroys freedom of the press whenever he gets a chance.
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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I love Japan; it's very special.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.
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If you accept that people are the products of evolution, then you have to have an open mind to the truth. Unfair discrimination exists whether we like it or not; I wouldn't have married a gum-chewing vegetarian.
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And then I went to the University of New Hampshire for two years, and then the war came along.
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I definitely invented the everything bagel. There's no doubt. It's undeniable truth. It's one of those things that's 100% true, 50% of the time.
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I certainly want people to like my writing, but I know that if I write with the intention of trying to please people, the writing will not be good because it will not be authentic. So, ironically, I have to be willing to write something strange or unlovable in order to write anything truly good.
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Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.
