Lee Hyeon-seo Quotes
Some people criticize North Koreans and ask, 'Are they stupid? How can they believe those ridiculous things?' But I say, It doesn't matter if you're smart: if you were born in North Korea, you would be exactly like us. We don't know what freedom is. We have never enjoyed it.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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I love bayou life.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I'm definitely musician and storyteller. But I always like to take an active role in things I care about socially and environmentally.
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It took a long time to get that film made. I went in for it almost right after or like maybe six or seven months after I had my son and actually auditioned for the Regina King part and they just were like, 'No, you're just - you just don't really seem the part.'
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I was going from Furman to the University of Georgia. I transferred to play football.
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The thematic bucket of vomit that I've been chained to since I was about 9 is the moral complexity of anti-heroism. I have always been interested in good people who do bad things for understandable reasons.
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I don't get it when people complain that baseball games are too long.
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Some people criticize North Koreans and ask, 'Are they stupid? How can they believe those ridiculous things?' But I say, It doesn't matter if you're smart: if you were born in North Korea, you would be exactly like us. We don't know what freedom is. We have never enjoyed it.
