Today, tomorrow,” she said. “A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.
ADAM JOHNSONConjure up all the strength you have and drive through whatever it is keeping you on your knees. Build up the strength and your knees may never buckle again!
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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I’d known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn’t be possible, since it’s illegal for them to speak with foreigners.
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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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But, in North Korea, it’s just the opposite. There’s one story. It’s written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters.
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Conjure up all the strength you have and drive through whatever it is keeping you on your knees. Build up the strength and your knees may never buckle again!
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.
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The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
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Once the dust clears you will be standing tall, a champion, a victor. NOTHING will be able to knock you down once you’ve taken the biggest hits this life has to offer, so come on life, BRING IT!
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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?
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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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