Korea Quotes - Page 12

• The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You would never be able to escape.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Discovery, Religion, Relief

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• I don't want anything bad to happen to the United States, but if North Korea ever drops a nuclear bomb on this country, I swear to God, I hope it lands in Hartford.

  Dave Chappelle

  Country, Swear To God, Land

  "After Dave Chappelle Hates On Hartford, Who's To Blame?". www.npr.org. September 6, 2013.

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• North Korea threatened to attack if Sony Pictures released The Interview, forcing us all to pretend that we wanted to see it.

  Tina Fey

  Interviews, Sony, Wanted

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• G-Dragonhe is very romantic. I’m his roommate so I see everything. He’s seriously romantic. If he dates someone he makes a song for them. One time he asked me how the song was. And I said oh my god if this was released in Korea there’d be a huge deal and it would make so much money. But… since it’s for the woman he loves it’s only for her and gives up that money/fame from that song.

  Seungri

  Song, Giving Up, Roommate

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• The night sky in North Korea might be the most brilliant in northeast Asia, the only airspace spared the coal dust, Gobi Desert sand, and carbon monoxide choking the rest of the continent.

  Barbara Demick

  Night, Dust, Sky

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• A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and was showing it off to his friends. The soldier clipped a few nails, admired the sharp, clean edges, and marveled at the mechanics of this simple item. Then he realized with a sinking heart: If North Korea couldn’t make such a fine nail clipper, how could it compete with American weapons?

  Barbara Demick

  Heart, Simple, Soldier

  Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.168, Granta

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• North Korea and evangelical empires have the same principle of leadership: nepotism to the nth degree. You may not get the call, but you inherit the mailing list.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Principles, Degrees, May

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• Well, does he still have his fingernails? Making inquiries while negotiating the release of a US Army pilot from North Korea, in Time.

  Bill Richardson

  Time, Army, Doe

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• I don’t think it’s possible to skip with a frown on your face.... I’d like to see the world’s governing and terrorist leaders on a skipping tour through the Middle East and across the subcontinent and China to Korea.

  Bindi Irwin

  Thinking, Leader, Middle East

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• When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide.

  Fernando Alonso

  Race, Japan, Australia

  "Fernando Alonso: 'My father was right - Ferrari gives you a special feeling'". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2010.

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• The reason the world is in the spot it's in is because North Korea entered into an agreement and then did not keep up their terms of the agreement. They received aid in return for promising not to develop nuclear weapons. They took the aid, they ran with the aid and then they developed a nuclear weapons anyway.

  Ari Fleischer

  Agreement, Nuclear, World

  "Powell sees no progress from North Korean proposal", www.cnn.com. April 29, 2003.

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• The basic principle I have is that what is most Korean is what is the most international. I don't want to come here and act like I'm an American. I want to showcase the dynamic potential Korea has, and I want to prove that as an artist.

  PSY

  Artist, Principles, Want

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• There's a lot of variety of musicians in Korea. I cannot say they are the best in the world, but I can say that Korean artists are really dynamic artists, so I am going to show that from now on.

  PSY

  Artist, Musician, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We are just at the studio, me and my choreographers, we are spending like 30 nights and we are thinking, what is my next dance move? Because in Korea there are huge expectations about my dancing. So it was a lot of pressure.

  PSY

  Moving, Night, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To the U.S. and the world, I'm just known as some funny song and some funny music, some funny video guy. But in Korea I'm doing one of the biggest concerts; it's not a dance music concert. I'm playing with the band, so I change my every song to a rock song.

  PSY

  Song, Rocks, Guy

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• It was good to launch the economy in the '50s. Japan did this; China did this; even South Korea did this. All the East Asians did this - import substitution. I think all countries followed import substitution in the '50s and in the '60s, but I think by the '70s, countries were getting out of that first phase of the strategy.

  Jairam Ramesh

  Country, Thinking, Japan

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• For Singapore, its test for its own democracy must be whether it fit and serve the interests of its people and conditions, and not serve some abstract ideal that the Western media thought it ought to conform to. If in 10 years, Philippines, Taiwan and Korea were better societies because they adopted the US model, Singapore would hurry to catch.

  Goh Chok Tong

  Media, Years, People

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• If wars create vast sums of money for the global elite, is it possible the Soviets, the Viet Cong and Muslim extremists were, or are, also fabricated enemies of the West along with North Korea? Or at least exaggerated threats?

  James Morcan

  War, Muslim Extremists, Enemy

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• The most upsetting thing is that the US is a leader in the world, and if they don't sign, then how do you expect to convince Russian and China and Iran, Pakistan, all these other countries, to sign? They simply won't. (The US government) feels it's against their constitutional right to bear arms, or they've said that it's needed in North and South Korea, on the border. I don't think any of these are good enough excuses for the damage.

  Angelina Jolie

  Country, Thinking, Iran

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• It's our job to get into the hardest-to-see places and bring back the best footage - we have the best footage of North Korea ever shot. If that's a stunt, then I'll keep on doing stunts until I die.

  Shane Smith

  Jobs, Shots, Hardest

  "Vice's New Envelope-Pushing Docu-Series Premieres on HBO Tonight" by Allison P.Davis, www.elle.com. April 5, 2013.

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• There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Censorship

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• My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

  Darrell Issa

  Uncles, Father, Military

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• Please clean your plate dear, the Lord above can see ya. Don't you know people are starving in Korea.

  Alice Cooper

  Religious, People, Religion

  Song: Generation Landslide '81, Album: Special Forces

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• My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

  David Alan Grier

  Father, Polio, Train

  "David Alan Grier's 'Sporting Life' On Broadway". Interview with Terry Gross, www.wwno.org. May 22, 2012.

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• I've been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I've been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work.

  Helen Clark

  Japan, People, Months

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