Korean Quotes

• For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.

  Kim Yuna

  Long, Goal, Skating

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• In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate.

  Noah Feldman

  War, Korea, President

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• Even monkeys fall from trees.

  Chris Bradford

  Fall, Tree, Monkeys

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• It's not worth comparing; Kara and SNSD are both Korean girl groups. I'm proud that Korean girl groups are being recognized in Japan Everyone has their preferences. There are people who like SNSD and there are people who like Kara.

  Seohyun

  Girl, Japan, People

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• I am a Korean War veteran. I support our troops as much as anyone in this body, but I do so by advocating redeployment out of Iraq as soon as it can be safely done.

  John Conyers

  War, Iraq, Support

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• North Korea. Not only does North Korean have nuclear weapons, but their leadership appears to not be rational.

  Ted Lieu

  Korea, Weapons, Doe

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• It is natural for us to pay attention to North Korea and human rights issues of North Korean defectors but I wish people would not try to create stars. The reality is different from Hollywood movies.

  Hark-Joon Lee

  Stars, Reality, Rights

  "This journalist didn’t just interview North Korean defectors, he followed them on their escape". Interview with Anna Fifield, www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2015.

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• I guess the difference between the Korean hip-hop scene and the American hip-hop scene is that in the American hip-hop scene, you know, they have their Jay-Zs. They can become conglomerates through hip-hop. In Korea, it doesn't happen.

  Tablo

  Korea, Differences, Hip Hop

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• Throughout our history, there has been a long list of those we've been conditioned to hate. The British, French, Spanish, Germans, Japanese, Russians, Communists, Northern Koreans, Vietnamese, Iranians, Taliban, and both northerners and southerners in America are some of the people we've been encouraged at various times to call enemies and to hate. The list is long, and as time passes, those we were assigned to hate we later were told should be removed from our hate list. The enemy is obviously hatred itself. Have empathy for your assigned enemy.

  Wayne Dyer

  Hate, Long, People

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• The era of strategic patience with the North Korean regime has failed. Many years, and it's failed. And, frankly, that patience is over.

  Donald Trump

  North Korea, North Korean

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• But the true threats to stability and peace are these nations that are not very transparent, that hide behind the-that don't let people in to take a look and see what they're up to. They're very kind of authoritarian regimes. The true threat is whether or not one of these people decide, peak of anger, try to hold us hostage, ourselves; the Israelis, for example, to whom we'll defend, offer our defenses; the South Koreans.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, People, Political

  "The Complete Bushisms". Media roundtable, Washington, D.C., www.slate.com. March 13, 2001.

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• Wherever Koreans are, they set up a church.

  Sandra Oh

  Church

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• Today, former President Bill Clinton met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il and convinced him to release two American journalists that have been jailed since March. Isn't that great? This is big, yeah. Or as Clinton calls it, another Asian happy ending.

  Conan O'Brien

  Two, President, Asian

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• Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist.

  Masaharu Morimoto

  Mean, Italian, Thinking

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• There is reason to say that negotiations with the North Koreans are not easy, they may not succeed, but they may be a way of getting to where we want to get to, limiting the capability of the North Koreans to do harm to us and our allies without the use of military force and without the risk of a major war in Northeast Asia.

  Robert Gallucci

  Military, War, Risk

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be.

  Lawrence Eagleburger

  Thinking, Games, Worry

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• Most people in Seoul don't care about the North's belligerent statements: The farther one is from the Korean Peninsula, the more one will find people worried about the recent developments here. Scary impressions are important to North Korea because for the last two decades its policy has been, above all, a brilliant exercise in diplomatic blackmail. And blackmail usually works better when the practitioners are seen as irrational and unpredictable.

  Andrei Lankov

  Exercise, Two, Korea

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• I was able to persuade them to let me shoot in areas that were beyond the volcano itself. Beyond the joint scientific program between Cambridge University and North Korean scientists. I was able to film in a kindergarten, subway, other things you would not normally be allowed to do.

  Werner Herzog

  Volcanoes, Cambridge University, Able

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Living in Korea as a girl meant living under a lot of discrimination and limitation. It was the same in my university and in the Korean literary world I am involved in now.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Girl, Korea, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Those North Korean hackers are at it again. Earlier today they leaked Santa's naughty list.

  David Letterman

  Naughty, Santa, Today

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• Happy birthday to evil North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. He gathered family and friends together and celebrated by executing a few close friends.

  David Letterman

  Evil, Family And Friends, Together

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• I have nothing against the North Koreans but this Kim Jong Un has got a screw loose. A member of his cabinet, his security minister, nods off, falls sleep. We've all done it. Kim Jong Un takes the guy out and has him executed, just for just falling asleep. Oh, and he was also deflating footballs.

  David Letterman

  Football, Fall, Sleep

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• If Sony's not going to show 'The Interview,' that's it. No more North Korean movies for me.

  Conan O'Brien

  Interviews, Sony, North Korea

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• Sony has canceled the big Seth Rogen movie, 'The Interview.' North Koreans hacked their email so Sony said, 'Now we can't show anybody the movie.' I'm disappointed. I think this is the wrong thing to do. And I hear in the film Meryl Streep is great as Kim Jong Un.

  Conan O'Brien

  Thinking, Interviews, Kim

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• North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un reportedly has had 15 of his top officials executed. So the lesson here is when Kim Jong Un comes to work with a new haircut, you tell him, 'Looking good, Un.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Kim, Lessons, Dictator

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