"Marriage is this black box which is the key to all social and political problems; the family is the unit."

“North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their indoctrination began in infancy, during the fourteen-hour days spent in factory day-care centers; that for the subsequent fifty years, every song, film, newspaper article, and billboard was designed to deify Kim Il-sung; that the country was hermetically sealed to keep out anything that might cast doubt on Kim Il-sung's divinity. Who could possibly resist?”

Source : Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.42, Granta

“The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.”

“I would say that maybe directors who act as well are easier with actors. I'm not saying that all directors have this, but sometimes you'll come across a director who sort of looks at an actor a bit like a kind of untrained horse that's been let out of the stable, like they might buck him.”

“Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.”

“Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.”

Source : Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

“One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.”

“I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.”

“CNTRL is about letting people know that not everyone fits under the 'EDM' umbrella; not creatively or even personally.”