"One death is a tragedy; a thousand is a statistic."

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Source : Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.106, Granta

Barbara Demick

#Tragedy Quotes #Thousand Quotes

“My belief is that PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings.”
“O philosophy, you leader of life.”
“Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach”
“The women on that list are amazing, so to be on it for the first time and have this position is crazy. I'm not one to walk around and strut like Miss Thing, so I'm pretty humbled.”

Source : Maxim Interview, www.maxim.com. July 15, 2008.
“Do you remember the time we met? The wind blew the snow about on the outside, the train moved, stopped, and then moved some more. It took us five hours to reach Tokyo, but I wasn't bored one bit. I didn't really get to hear so much about Nana. But I knew I would have loved... To hear what Nana had to say about herself. - Nana Komatsu”
“We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.”

Source : "A Star Who Has No Time for Vanity" by Frank Bruni, www.nytimes.com. October 15, 2014.
“The lessons learned on a pure practical production standpoint were immense. It instilled a faith that you can accomplish what you want if you just believe and stick together and continue to work at it. In that sense, it gives me the confidence to go into the next project with the belief that we can do it. This was an experiment in whether you can find a film without a singular conceit.”
“I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.”

Source : "Why Is Sam Taylor-Wood Smiling?" by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 23, 2010.

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