Lee Hyeon-seo Quotes

Because North Korea was so totally cut off, we didn't hear anything of the outside world. We had only one TV channel, which showed only propaganda, and we believed everything.

Lee Hyeon-seo

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WorldOutsideEverythingAnything

I am a frustrated saxophone player. If I could, I would abandon all of my books, and I would trade it all if I could play the way people I admire play.

Robert Pinsky

I AmPeoplePlayAdmireWayTrade

What really made me think about space and begin to think about ways to use it was Einstein's statement that there are no fixed points in space. Everything in the universe is moving all the time.

Merce Cunningham

TimeSpaceMeMovingThinkUniverse

Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and cheery has on what people think the good life is.

Steve Jurvetson

LifeGoodPeopleThinkGood Life

Whether I'm acting, writing, or directing, I want to tell the truth about human beings, especially my folk.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

TruthWritingActingWantHuman

Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now.

Lisa Gardner

FutureGreatWarYouNowSay

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.

Joseph Wood Krutch

SunRiseSaidLivingWithinOwn

Health and wellness does mean different things to different people.

Denise Morrison

HealthPeopleWellnessMeanThings

I've been in scenes with my brother where I've been absolutely emotionally terrified to go somewhere. But because he's my brother, I feel safe.

Dean Winters

BrotherFeelGoSafeSomewhereBeen

I get interested in the various ways that music is being done in the culture, and some of it I like thoroughly enough to want to learn about it. The way I have been successful at doing that is to become part of it.

Chick Corea

MusicCultureLearnDoingEnough

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

Woodrow Wilson

ManSuicideNeverWhoAttempt

Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something.

Wynton Marsalis

FightReadySeeTrumpetSomething

After college, I went to San Francisco and worked as a secretary in a reinsurance company. That was a pretty dismal job. It was a real small place. Guys would come in, and they'd sort of stick out their arms like wings so I could take their coats off. They'd tell me, 'Two,' and I'd put two lumps of sugar in their coffee.

William T. Vollmann

CoffeeJobCollegeMeSmallWings

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